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Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Boring

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

The first time I saw this I was angry with the Sid Vicious . Sid Vicious to me was a legend to be talked about, in awe, at small party's, in my teens; on the east coast. Someone who would give stage shows like no other rebellious young person. Things like razor blades in the mouth and bashing people with his bass guitar made Sid Vicious a legend of his time. I saw him in a movie called DOA https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082226 . When I saw this I was about 22 years old, and I forever respected the punk rock movement; after that. I saw the uncut version at Yale in the public cinema there in Connecticut. I highly recommend watching movies like that with college students. The second time I saw it I was really touched emotionally. Not because of the vices of the characters. What touched me was the love Sid and Nancy had for each other. Here they were living hellish lifestyles that would turn most older adults stomachs; yet there love for each other was so raw and genuine. Seeing them cling to each other so much; aloud me see the some goodness in them. The sadness of the movie as a whole makes it a 10.I do not know if there is a better actor than Gary Oldman. Every since I saw him in Dracula there is no one that can compare. When he does the line: ("I am the monster that breathing men would kill. I am Dracula."); is proof he a one of the best actors out there. Chloe Webb's performance seemed perfect. How exactly someone would come across like that is unknown to me. She did a one of a kind performance; as a top notch actress, for her time. I was surprised to see she is not that well known.

This starts with the death of Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb) leaving Sid Vicious (Gary Oldman) catatonic as the police question him. The couple had met more than a year ago. Sid and Sex Pistols bandmate Johnny Rotten (Andrew Schofield) are on the streets doing minor vandalism. They find Nancy with another friend. She becomes a groupie. After a little time, they become a couple addicted to heroine. The band implodes during the disastrous US tour. Sid tries to go solo with Nancy managing but their desperate addiction leads to the eventual self-destruction.These are two amazing performances. Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb go into the gutter of the soul of these characters. It's raw and powerful. This is a Romeo and Juliet on heroine. I actually find Webb the wilder performance but the combination is undeniable.

Depressing Movie about Destructive Forces Showing Destructive Outcasts Facing Their Fate. This Biopic is a Frighteningly Fantastic Film. It is not Really about Punk and its Initial Explosion onto the Pop Music Scene that caused the Death of the Corporate Prefabricated Rock Product that caused the Death of Real Rock, and Ultimately and Fittingly caused its own Death because of a Pre-Determined Pronunciation of Annihilating Anarchy.1977 saw the Birth of Punk and the Death of Elvis Presley, but not before He had puffed up to near 300 pounds and was Literally a Prescription Drug-Addled Zombie who needed to hold Lyric Sheets on Stage because He could not Remember the Words.Here Sid Vicious in the throes of Decline is shown on Stage so out of His Mind on Drugs and Alcohol that He needed to hold a Lyric Sheet because He could not Remember the Words. Both of these Rock Icons were in Real Life just a Heartbeat from Death and those Revealing Moments are some kind of Sad Synchronicity.There is much Truth in this Movie among the Fiction and it is a Riveting and Revolting Riff on the Punk Rock Sensibility, that at the Time made a lot of Sense in its Senselessness. But a Music Documentary it is not. It is a Character Study of Two Desperate and Detached from Life People.The Title says it all. This is the Story of Sid and Nancy and not of Punk Rock or the Sex Pistols. For that see the many Fine Documentaries and Books on the Subject. Don't let the Movie put you off Punk Rock because it doesn't Portray the Essential Energy, Evolution, or Embryonic Essence of the Music and the Movement.It is a Great Film but can be a Hard Watch at Times. Seeing the Death of Real People even in a Dramatization is never Pretty. This is an Extremely Well Acted, Good Looking Movie but is very hard to Look at.

In Sid and Nancy, writer and director, Cox deploys an arsenal of events in the making of the morbid reality of life and death of the ever so distinguished British glamour punk-rock most tragic couple Sid and Nancy. Cox rendition of Sid and Nancy is perhaps the most subtle work of art that truly highlighted the story of the destructive pair through a stimulating concept of humanity from the threshold of the former Sex Pistol's bass player who was famously known for his wild and irrefutable rowdy antics. Played by Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious together with Chloe Webb who took over the role of young schizophrenic Nancy, displayed a body of electrifying screen play in depicting this heartfelt, sad and treacherous love and tragedy of the young couple. An Oscar deserving Oldman gave an eerie resemblance of Sid Vicious enigma as a young wild child who at the tender age of 19 has managed to squeeze 4 lifetimes of revolt and blackball in just 12 months streak as the bassist of Sex Pistol's becoming legendary for being the first to rebel and the first to die. In our desperate attempts to believe there was nothing good in their lives and nothing good will ever come if we care to give them a moment of our time, Cox defeat our ideology by infusing the couple with a sense of humanity, rare and momentary instances of love that we so wanted to believe never existed in the couples misadventures. Instead of giving us the symbolic bedlams of drugs, violence and anarchy in the greater pretext of ten folds, Sid and Nancy simultaneously maintains a small edge of altruism that leaves behind a greater impact on the viewers rather than all the gory lineage that they were famously known for.Sid and Nancy keeps a religiously close track to the tales of the revolting and outrageous adventures of the pair as we get to witness the violent streaks between the two, Sid's infamous flesh mutilating escapades and the famous Chelsea Hotel room fire ignited by the two, which is beautifully interlaced with legendary Sex Pistols concerts, the era of their falling right up to the unfortunate passing of Nancy Spungen and Sid's arrest in New York.Here, you witness a couple who throughout their deteriorating cataclysm has many times no matter how small an effort did try to set their lives straight in their otherwise chaotic structure. Some of the most prevalent moments were initially seen at the pub where a a moment of solid poignancy managed to eternally set the tone of dismissal apart. Sid's preliminary despise to the American groupie turns into sympathy after witnessing an assault bestowed on her shortly after she was ripped off and bushed whacked. Sidney who saw the whole scenario from afar, finds Nancy sobbing outside and offers her some comfort through one of the most eccentric ways known by human kind. We also note Nancy's classic line here and one that notes the many paradoxes of the couple 'Never trust a junkie' ideology. It was a heartbreaking realisation to see the novelty of the beginning of a tragic tale of love and death that first started with less to no interest in the early providence to evolving as the final shot of a Russian Roulette kind of game. An absolute masterpiece out of the rather impressive vault of Cox, he ends the flick in the most admirable ways by refuting the question 'Did Sid truly kill Nancy' dead-wringer that still lacks an answer 3 decades after her death in room 100, Chelsea Hotel. Sid Vicious retires from life in a beautiful manner shortly after giving us his admirable Pogo dance before he escapes into the ulterior setting of life in the other dimension, safe and secured in the hands of his soulmate, Nancy Spungen.Honourable mentions for the rest of the cast members who put up an effective work of art, passion and charisma to bring this sad tale to life. It took me so long to get to this movie but after watching it once, i watched it 3 times in one week. All humans can be animals when there's a desire to act up to the dark sides of our existence and for the likes of Sid and Nancy, it becomes a label and void of a generation. When someone finally comes through and give them the credits they deserve in a less beastly ways it's not only brilliant, it's honourable. Everyone was reckless once but not everyone lived to pay their dues, for the rest of us, we died too young.