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Stoned

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Stoned reviews
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4.0 User Score:

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Based on 22 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama  |  Musical

Written by: Neal Purvis
Robert Wade

Directed by: Stephen Woolley

Release Date:
Theatrical: March 24, 2006
DVD: July 4, 2006

Running Time: 102 minutes, B/W / Color

Origin: UK

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Starring Leo Gregory, Monet Mazur, Paddy Considine, David Morrissey, Tuva Novotny, Ben Whishaw, Luke de Woolfson, and James D. White

In 1962, Brian Jones was the founding member of one of the most famous rock and roll bands of all time: The Rolling Stones. A gifted musician, influential fashion icon and indiscriminate womanizer, Jones (Gregory) rode a glittering staircase to stardom for seven short years before being fired by the band. Shortly afterwards, he was found dead in the deep end of his own swimming pool and in the wake of his tragic death he became a legend. This is the directorial debut of Stephen Woolley, longtime producer for filmmaker Neil Jordan. (Landmark Theatres)

What The Critics Said

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63

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

It's a depressing story made even more of a downer by the absence of any Stones-performed music from their prime '60s years.

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63

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Newcomer Gregory never captures the mercurial charisma for which Jones was famous (and which Jagger notoriously channeled in his movie debut, "Performance"), without which his story is just another cautionary tale about fast times, intemperate passions and bad dope.

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63

New York Post Kyle Smith

Stoned carries a freaked-out buzz of nostalgia for the era when celebs willfully destroyed themselves for our amusement.

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63

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

The good news here is that Woolley and his writers have taken the mystery surrounding Jones' tragic 1969 death as their main interest, and have adopted as fact the long-cherished rumor that the blond rocker's drowning was a case of murder. It may be speculative history, but at least it's a story.

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60

Film Threat Felix Vasques Jr.

A must for any true rock aficionado.

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50

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Bill White

The soundtrack is a mess, with period music out of sync with the period, as when the 1967 song, "White Rabbit," underscores a 1965 acid trip.

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50

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Its title may ring with pun and promise, but Stoned is 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.

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50

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Thorogood allegedly confessed on his deathbed (in 1993) that he killed Jones, and while the movie convinces us that this might have happened, it never truly reveals who Brian Jones was before he fell apart. His indulgence, and his demise, play out in a void.

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50

Premiere Ethan Alter

A clichéd rock-star film.

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50

LA Weekly John Patterson

Despite good performances from Gregory, Considine and especially David Morrissey, the movie's true merits are all on the surface: its uncannily authentic period reconstruction and its successful use of stressed and textured film stocks. The filmmakers care more about this than about their characters, and it's hard for us not to feel the same.

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42

The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps

Apart from Considine, the actors all deliver superficial performances beneath several layers of slathered-on Summer Of Love drag, and Woolley's use of multiple film stocks and flash-cut editing jumbles together a bunch of '60s filmmaking clichés without putting them to any particular use.

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40

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

This UK drama by Stephen Woolley, a longtime producer for Neil Jordan making his directing debut, presents a fairly convincing version of what might have happened.

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40

Variety Leslie Felperin

The film's sputtering dramatic engine, underwhelming perfs, and absence of music by the Stones themselves may leave the key younger demographic wondering what all the fuss is about.

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40

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

What we really need from Stoned, the very thing that it fails to give us, is a sense of Jones as a human being.

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40

The New York Times Stephen Holden

Stoned accomplishes the unlikely feat of making the golden years before medical science and the law caught up with rock culture look dull.

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40

Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust

Fans of the band will likely be disappointed (its music is represented by a handful of covers), and younger audiences will wonder what the fuss is about.

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38

USA Today Claudia Puig

Glaringly lacking in the film are any original Stones songs. The group, who fired Jones just before his death, must not have thought much of the movie if they didn't allow their music to be used. Smart fellows.

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38

Boston Globe Ty Burr

All the pieces are in place for an incisive tale of Brit-pop ego and madness, but filmmaker Stephen Woolley -- a celebrated UK producer ("The Crying Game") making his directing debut -- lets the story get away from him.

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30

Village Voice Jessica Winter

The rock hero starts out dead and so does the movie.

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30

The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

A disappointingly dreary affair.

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25

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Could 1960s-style sex, drugs and rock & roll really have been this dull?

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25

San Francisco Chronicle Joel Selvin

Almost so bad it's good. Almost.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 4.0 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

John P. gave it a2:
As a life long fan of The Stones and still remembering the devastation I felt when I heard he had passed the movie has nullified all that. I'm not much into sugar coating but I can not believe that the director couldn't have found some positive in the mans life. If Jones was such a selfish mean spirited jerk then I guess it should no longer come to us as such a surprise whether he killed himself or someone offed him. He unfortunatley didn't deserve what could have been.

Map P. gave it a7:
Worth a look, better than I was expecting.

Will C. gave it a3:
Really a super boring and dull movie. No Rolling Stones music either. I would avoid this one.

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