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18 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Rubbish Bridge, 27 Dec 2002
By A Customer
I hated this film. I have to say it is possibly the worst film I've seen to date, not least because I gave up my hard earned cash to buy the dvd. Like most I thought "It can't be that bad even if hendrix isn't in it for long at least i get a bit of a concert, etc, etc" - wrong, wrong, WRONG! The basic plot (if i can even call it that) consists of some daft bird going to a run-down hippy/surfer commune where every face shows the signs of too much brown acid and one too many all night love-ins. It is like watching the hippy animal of the sixties on it's last legs, gasping it's last gasp, someone needs to put it out of it's misery. The viewer is made to endure a good hour or two of the usual yoga, meditation, happy-clappy cult crap that you would expect went on in these places. spliced together with "members" going on about this, that and the other. God only know why on earth Hendrix turns up in the middle of all this. I almost wish he hadn't then this film would've never seen the light of day. Hendrix takes part in some bizarre theatricals and then we see him sitting around discussing the meaning of life or whatever, pissed as a newt...and that's what bugged me most about this film. Like every other person in this film Hendrix comes across as a total idiot. Rambling on about stuff pretending to act wise and elightened when (today at least) every word seems filled with the nievity, stupidity and drugged-up mysticism that made the hippy dream die on it's feet. When hendrix does finally find his way up on stage it is a real let down. The "concert" is really just a makshift stage in the middle of a windswept field and about 50 brain dead love-children to witness it. Like the rest of the film the sound, visual quality and editing is absolutely DIRE. There is about one complete song with the rest being cut short or spliced together in the oddest of fashion as if you wouldn't notice.
Now I know what you're probably thinking, "Ah i'll just sit back and get stoned and it'll be alright." well I'd disagree because it'll just make you feel even worse about the whole thing. Now I'm a great hendrix fan and I have most of the CD's and DVD's of his but this went straight in the bloody bin after I watched it. It's the only thing I've ever seen that totally destroys the lengend of jimi. If you're a fan - don't buy this.
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