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Stoned
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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)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
Stoned carries a freaked-out buzz of nostalgia for the era when celebs willfully destroyed themselves for our amusement.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Jessica Winter
The rock hero starts out dead and so does the movie.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Could 1960s-style sex, drugs and rock & roll really have been this dull?
Read Full Review >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.
