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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

The Worst Film Ever

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

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Like the early Beatles bio-pic "Backbeat" this depiction of Jimi Hendrix's breakthrough years of 1966-1967 suffers from not playing any of his most recognisable songs during the period. It really is unthinkable that in trying to explore his complex character, the producers would ignore tracks like "Hey Joe", "Purple Haze" or "The Wind Cries Mary" to name but three. I don't know if it was they couldn't get licensing permission or whether it was deliberate, but for me it left a gaping hole in the finished movie.What we're left with then is in truth a rather flat, dreary movie which despite employing several cinematic tricks and devices, in the end comes out dull and boring, two things Hendrix assuredly wasn't. Among those devices is the name-plating of important people when they're on screen, even if only for fleeting seconds, just because they don't look sufficiently like their real-life counterparts (like Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and for one second George Harrison). Otherwise numerous jump-cuts, hand-held shots and unusual camera angles are deployed throughout no doubt to psychedelicise proceedings and get the viewer synced with swinging London in 1966-1967.Hendrix is depicted in three distinct guises, the sex-god who casually flits from woman to woman as they uniformly fall for his hippy-drippy, far-out exoticism, staying with him even after he hits them, the peace-nik dreamer who we see set out his flower-power credentials in a lengthy heavy discussion with black activist Michael X and lastly of course the shy musician, reverent of his blues history and modern contemporaries like Clapton and Dylan, who can drop in on a Cream gig and blow away Slowhand Clapton or dazzle the attendant Beatles at a Savile Row gig by playing the title track to their landmark "Sgt Pepper" album just two days after its release.I actually liked the acting in the film, Andre Benjamin of OutKast certainly nails Jimi's appearance, mannerisms, speech patterns and even his guitar playing style, the various women who pass in and out of his life are well played and similarly the actors playing his manager ex-Animal Chas Chandler and the Experience members Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding are convincing.Somehow though this movie, whilst reasonably accurate in depicting the era failed to really leap off the screen and grab my attention with dialogue scenes running on too long and one senses really only touching the surface of the complex character that was James Marshall Hendrix.

Jimi: All is by My Side is a disjointed and rambling bio pic of the great Jimi Hendrix and rather fictionalised.Andre Benjamin is too laid back and fails to give a spirited performance until the he sings a Beatles song. The film is hampered as the makers could not get the rights to Hendrix's music.The film follows Hendrix in London has he impressed Linda Keith (Imogen Poots) over in the USA, who got him over to Britain and hooked him with a manager. While he is Britain, he impresses people with his guitar playing, takes drugs and womanises like no tomorrow. He gets a girlfriend Kathy Etchingham (Hayley Atwell) who he has a stormy relationship with.The film meanders too much and never even hits third gear. It finishes rather abruptly, I wanted to see him give his iconic performance in Monterey but rights issue probably got in the way I guess.It is no secret that Hendrix died by choking on vomit. Some decades after he died, the police re-investigated the cause of his death. It must have been someone else's vomit he must have choked on!

Truly dreadful. It said on the DVD box "Benjamin is electrifying", what they meant was, Benjamin is shocking. Maybe not his fault, he's just out of his depth. Yes, he's black, but there the similarity ends. He sounds like Michael Jackson, not Jimi Hendrix and look at his hands! This is not the person to play the great man. The narrative is deeply flawed, as noted by other reviewers, including those who were there. Perhaps this film might work in 50 years time as a Sunday night costume drama of the 20th Century, but as a biopic it fails miserably, and is certainly not "one of the best biopics ever"as trumpeted in the promo material. Don't believe it, just leave it.

Not even one min in and...."QUEEN" YES...QUEEN! ...were presented as competition to Jimi. About as historically actuate as claiming the RAF were up against F-14s. I can't watch such nonsense.If they can't even get basic dates right what is the point? The who and Queen! LOL There were some problems with your review. You will not be able to submit your review until these problems are fixed.What a waste of time!Your review does not contain enough lines - the minimum length for reviews is 10 lines of text. Please see the guidelines. Attempts to pad the comment with junk words can result in your account being blocked from future submissions. Your review is not yet ready for submission.By submitting this review you are agreeing to the terms laid out in our Copyright Statement. Your submission must be your own original work. Your review will normally be posted on the site within 2-3 business days. Reviews that do not meet the guidelines will not be posted. Please write in English only. HTML or boards mark-up is not supported though paragraph breaks will be inserted if you leave a blank line between paragraph.