Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

jubilee77 Most people would have expected this film to be an insight in the life of Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones whom met his mysterious death in his own swimming pool and in more recent times lead to theories that he was murdered by builder Frank Thorogood but with hindsight, much of these theories that Brian was murdered were based on the opinions of girlfriends like Anna Wohlin so who cares? My own theories about this film is that it is really poor and is one of director Stephen Woolley's near-miss yet he had spent a decade trying to piece together this rubbish hence to such wasted effort and is also one to miss for it provides far too little fact about the life of Brian. Get real, folks! Nobody should take those theories about Brian Jones being killed by Frank Thorogood seriously as fact because little or maybe no real evidence exists and deathbed confessions from Thorogood were nothing more than incoherent ramblings. Brian Jones has been dead all those years. His bizarre lifestyle and unpredictable mood swings coupled with his asthma were the only known contributing factor to his short life. Save your money.

tyrssen Very nearly as bad as claimed. It falls just short of "awful," and I read somewhere that it only made 32 K -- not even enough to cover production costs.I remember when Brian Jones died.So I was hoping for a decent tribute, even if critical. I didn't really get it, with this film. Sorta. But not quite. Brian was a quirky musical genius in his own way, and such people often live in their own worlds, often misunderstood. Syd Barrett, 'nother excellent case. "Stoned" starts at the end, with Brian dead in his pool, and re-traces things from there ... but in a manner so choppy that it leaves the viewer going "huh? What was that? Who's that, again?" more times than I care to count. And, that little flash-scene in the opening, with a dog's throat getting cut, isn't about anything in the movie or in real life. Why is it in there? Obviously, the film maker hoped to be making something as "cult" as Mick Jagger's film, "Performance," an infinitely better picture.But "Performance," this is not. Brian is tolerably portrayed, the other Rolling Stones are barely recognizable in spite of their best efforts. And Anita is tolerably done. But I'm afraid all the lovely naked ladies that flash through this film (literally) can't save it from what, ultimately, is an odd script, lousy direction, and quirky (to be charitable) cinematography.

dhlough-1 The mystique of the Rolling Stones isn't well served by Stoned, a speculative film about the last three months of the life of original guitarist Brian Jones. But nor will their legend be marred by this inept and ineffectual bio-pic.Directed by famed producer Stephen Woolley (The Crying Game, Breakfast On Pluto), Stoned shows us Jones final days through the eyes of Frank Thorogood (Paddy Considine), a contractor brought into the fold by the Stones road manager Tom Keylock (David Morrissey) to help with the landscaping of his East Sussex manse and, eventually, keep an eye on the free-spirited rock star.Since we know that Jones (Leo Gregory) drowned in his pool, Wooley stages it with a flash forward of the body's discovery near the start of the film. But any mystery about the relationship of the working-class Thorogood and the rich Jones begs for more incisive scenes than the clichéd mise-en-scene of all too familiar 60's tropes. To believe that the contractor could be moved to murder Jones, we need more than a mild scene of humiliation and a dismissal without final pay. We need shadings of Thorogood's psychological discord, and a fuller performance from the usually reliable Considine.Not that the other actors fare any better. Gregory plays Jones as a Lost Boy and an opportunist, sporting a Little Lord Fauntleroy shag that turns him into David Spade's somewhat sexier brother. The women are lovely, but basically negligible – whores or hangers-on – and the rest of the band loose approximations of the younger Stones, with Keith Richards the moral center of the film.Neither the script, by Neil Purvis and Robert Wade, nor the director, shapes scenes for drama. Jones life, like the film, seems aimless; we never understand his importance as the architect of the original Stones. On the evidence of Stoned, one can rightly say that as a director, Woolley is a great producer.

tim scott So the director had the cast watch Performance first, eh? Its a pity that none of the originality, menace, atmosphere or talent of that film rubbed off on the crew or cast involved in the making of this turkey. The story of Brian Jones has so much to recommend it to filmmakers. There is the journey of the middle class kid from small town England to international rock star, there is the story of the cultural changes that took place in the 1960's, there is the doomed love-affair between Brian and Anita, there is the story of the Rolling Stones themselves; how they changed the face of pop music and then there is the story of Brian Jones relationship with his gardener. All of them have the potential to make a great film. So how come Stoned fails on very single one of them? Brian's wig for starters. Brian's "acting". The clichéd, lazy script. The awful choice of music (lame cover versions for the most part). The underwritten characters. The complete absence of any sympathetic characters. Missed opportunity after missed opportunity. Stay away from this film.