Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Yazmin Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

SnoopyStyle Legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese sets up a concert film with the Rolling Stones. The guys are performing on their A Bigger Bang Tour. In 2006 over 2 days, they perform at the Beacon Theatre in NYC benefiting the Clinton Foundation and Scorsese captures it. Also joining the boys on stage in small cameos are Jack White, Buddy Guy and Christina Aguilera.The most fascinating part of this movie is Scorsese setting up the performance. It's a black and white section at the start of the movie. It's actually a little funny and we get to see Scorsese at work behind the scenes. The rest is a regular concert film with snippets of old Rolling Stones interviews. It's not a particularly revealing documentary. As a concert film, it's well shoot and great for Rolling Stones fans.

beresfordjd Well filmed concert/documentary but disappointed me. I have been a Stones fan since the first record (Come On) came out in the sixties. I wanted to be Jagger or Richard so badly but I just could not cut it. The reason this film disappointed me is that I feel like Mick has become an exaggeration of himself - his singing voice is just TOO American now. he can still move like a much younger man but should he? I ask myself. Is it becoming at his age? Buddy Guy injected some energy and life into the concert, unlike Jack White who is supremely untalented. I felt some of the early songs in the set were rushed as though they were going through the motions. It was also interesting in the old footage to see how many different accents Jagger employed. After all these years I feel like I know absolutely nothing about him, but that must be part of his charisma and mystique and they way he wants it. I guess I am jealous-just wish I were as fit as MJ is. He can still cut it and he does quite look ridiculous yet but it is a fine line. No-one wants their heroes to become less than what they were and there is a danger if the Stones go on too long doing it like this.

JustApt The Rolling Stones is really unsinkable. And this doco is about their concert in Beacon Theatre, New York City on their latest tour. Bill Clinton, with his whole clan, was there too. Mick Jagger looks like some undernourished count Dracula these days and shouts his songs in rather small voice but he tosses and leaps around the stage like a teenager. I bet Martin Scorsese, who is the same age, can't run like this now. Keith Richards resembles most an ancient resurrected mummy and imitates back Johnny Depp now, like Johnny Depp used to imitate him in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Ron Wood is a blackest crow and Charlie Watts perches at his drum kit like a buzzard but he's wise like an owl. Most of all I liked flashbacks from the sixties and seventies when in 1966 Jagger said that they probably manage for a year more and in 1972 he said that when he'll be sixty he can still continue. Is there no Bill Clinton review at this site?

bloodymonday Many musicians are constantly trying to "reinvent" him/herself. They might try any new angle or new idea in their music career. Well, I don't see anything wrong about that at all. David Bowie changes his style more than chameleon changes color in its lifetime, and he's still a legend. But in the case of history of The Rolling Stone, it's the other way around. Because what we saw in 2008, every bit of energy in Mick, Keith, Ronny and Charlie are exactly the same as 1960's. And that's also made them a legend (To tell you the truth, I'm literally feared for his life when Mick Jagger began to dance like a complete madness on stage. I mean, he's 62 -friggin'-years old for crying out loud).Who are Rolling Stone? Well, if you really have to ask, then you've got yourself a long history lesson to do. And this concert/documentary might be a good start to experience their legacy. Shooting for two nights at concerts in New York's intimate Beacon Theatre, "Shine a Light" will make your typical night event look like concert in downtown pub. Martin Scorsese and his nine or so cinematographer (all of them are Oscar nominated) create such an energetic camera movement (in fact, dollies are so close to the audience that I thought it would hit them eventually). And between songs, Scorsese decided to put rare footages. Some of them link to the present time in a spooky kind of way (in 1960's one reporter asked Mick whether he can imagine himself doing what he does in the next 30 years, and then Mick said "definitely"). Some of them is just classic (When interviewer asked Keith that between him and Ronny, who's better guitarist? Keith reply "Neither one of us is any good, but together we're better than ten others.") Even all those Scorsese have done is already masterfully handled. But the real deal is the concert itself. They have mandatory stuffs like "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (what a way to start concert), "I'm Free ", "Start Me Up" (a must for live performance). Unexpectedly good stuffs like "As Tears Go By", "Brown Sugar" (this one got me cheer with joy). And collaboration from the best with Buddy Guy in "Champagne and Reefer", the decent with Christina Aguilera in "Live With Me" (even though it's a little bit creepy to see Mick gets behind her and doing what he does best) and the mediocre with White Stripe's Jack White in "Loving Cup" (They seem to be annoyed by each other). There a bunch of songs that I haven't mentioned, but let me tell you, there's not a single song that will fail by your expectation.I'm not sure that whether we (Thai people) will have an opportunity to experience in IMAX like we supposed to or not (you wish!). And I would love to see it again on that gigantic screen, because what I've experience so far in my lame ass bedroom television is already made my skin crawl.