Its All Gone Pete Tong is a comedy following the tragic life of the legendary Frankie Wilde. The story takes us through Frankie's life from being one of the best DJs alive, through a subsequent battle with a hearing disorder, culminating in his mysterious disappearance from the scene.
The movie works because of its heedless comic intensity; Kaye and his writer-director, Michael Dowse, chronicle the rise and fall of Frankie Wilde as other directors have dealt with emperors and kings.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
27 May 2005
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This is biopic as raving rumination. But it is also a surprisingly compassionate redemption story.
– Lisa Kennedy,
Denver Post,
27 May 2005
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The formula doesn't entirely stick, but Dowse's visual veracity towers over any narrative shortcomings Tong presents.
– Robert K. Elder,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Jun 2005
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You may ... find the picture as undisciplined as Frankie's wild coif. I see the chaos, like the coif, to be tangled but pointed, an endearingly calculated mess.
– Rick Groen,
Globe and Mail,
10 Jun 2005
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There's nothing like watching a guy hit rock bottom and then try to crawl back up again. Or as that heartless record industry weasel puts it, 'People love a good tragedy.' Especially one set to a good beat.