A chronicle of the sordid life and suspicious death of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones, who was found in the bottom of his swimming pool weeks after being let go from the band.
Leo Gregory's performance as Jones fails to capture his rebel charisma, and the film, like its subject, winds up all wet, floating without direction, and lifeless.
– Colin Covert,
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
4 May 2006
rotten:
Even The Doors looked like a model of clarity next to this.
– Ty Burr,
Boston Globe,
14 Apr 2006
rotten:
A flat riff on Jones's short life. You'll get the highlights but no sense of what made him special -- or what really haunted him.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
6 Apr 2006
rotten:
Almost so bad it's good. Almost.
– Joel Selvin,
San Francisco Chronicle,
24 Mar 2006
rotten:
Played with such an utter lack of charisma by Leo Gregory, Jones comes across as a rocker so drug- and ego-addled he doesn't have enough sense to lie down.