Title: fitfully interesting
Product review: Like the movie, this documentary is overpraised. Like the movie, it is intelligently done, but is overlong. I personally saw it largely because I'm a Stones fan, and I wanted to see Mick Jagger in the part that he couldn't complete because he had to go do the Stones 1981 tour. I thought I'd get to see Mick between shots, talking about making the movie. But there Mick is only in the documentary briefly, when clips from scenes he did with Jason Robards are shown. It IS a shame, as Herzog says, that Mick had to leave the movie, because, from these short clips, he does appear to act effectively, and had a charisma that comes across (surprising, because Jagger was so bland, and acted so poorly in the more recent FREEJACK). But the Mick clips are only a few seconds each, and I used the fastforward button for a lot of the rest of the movie.
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