No, it's not the new Maxwell Smart movie, it's the tedious film about Joy Division's Ian Curtis.
Great songs, beautifully shot, but some really wooden acting & un-sympathetic characterizations.
The film had me wishing Curtis would just hurry up and top himself.
The black & white photography lent itself to the bleak life everyone was leading in Manchester, especially, Curtis. Sam Reilly looked like the man but couldn't act his way out of a paper bag.

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A dull movie about a self obsorbed and uninteresting person.

What Joe Strummer film are you talking about?
It really did suck. The actor that played Curtis just mumbled a bunch and danced like Boris Karloff.
Joe Strummer was really good in Mystery Train though, especially love the scene where he shoots Rockets Redglare in the liquor store.
"Son... I'm the man thats gonna make you use that gun...

[BANG!]"

Yeah, Mystery Train is a classic. Joe Strummer, Steve Buschemi and Screamin' Jay Hawkins in the same movie? You can't fail!

Alex Patton said:
It really did suck. The actor that played Curtis just mumbled a bunch and danced like Boris Karloff.
Joe Strummer was really good in Mystery Train though, especially love the scene where he shoots Rockets Redglare in the liquor store.
And Tom Waits on the radio the whole time. Perfection.

ixnayray said:
"Son... I'm the man thats gonna make you use that gun...

[BANG!]"

Yeah, Mystery Train is a classic. Joe Strummer, Steve Buschemi and Screamin' Jay Hawkins in the same movie? You can't fail!

Alex Patton said:
It really did suck. The actor that played Curtis just mumbled a bunch and danced like Boris Karloff.
Joe Strummer was really good in Mystery Train though, especially love the scene where he shoots Rockets Redglare in the liquor store.

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