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Title: Falls a Bit Short
Review: The premise is a great one. Brain Slade, star of glam rock fakes his own death then vanishes with the scam is revealed. Ten years later he becomes the focus of a "whatever happened to" story being done by a reporter who sets out to find him.Unfortunately the execution of this idea falls a bit flat. The look of the movie is great with an excellent eye for glam era period detail. The performances, particularly from Ewan McGreggor (whose character is clearly modeled after Iggy Pop) and Toni Colette (as Slade's wife) are first rate and, at least at first, the "Citizen Kane" references are very sharp and entertaining.But this is a movie, despite all its best efforts, cant quite add up to the sum of its parts. The script fails to fully involved and after a while the "Citizen Kane" allusions become tiresome and come across as self important.Not a bad movie, but far from a great one. Overall 2 and a half stars.
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