Review of Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010) by Aidan H — 22 May 2010
I always thought Ian Dury's vaudevillian oompah fairground music wildly over-rated but, after the enjoyable romp of Worried About the Boy, I thought I'd give this a glimpse. My mistake, as everything that can be wrong with a bio-pic goes wrong with S&D&R&R as soon as Andy Serkis limps on as the eponymous Dury.
His performance is unerringly accurate but does nothing to endear us to a character whose personality is so fractured by the film's epileptic editing, spurious flash-backs and Bronson-esque links it's hard to say when the story actually starts.
Add to this some lamentably wooden, faux-Eastenders, corblimey dialogue and you have one very meh movie. I'll normally watch anything with Ray Winstone but this film had us reach for the 'off' button half way through.
Crap. 1 star for Serkis.
This review of Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010) was written by Aidan H on 22 May 2010.
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll has generally received positive reviews.
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