Rating of
3/4
The Good and the Unnecessary
Camper - wrote on 06/30/13
Kristen Stewart did an excellent job in portraying Joan Jett, but strangely enough, the actress that played Dakota Fanning's sister looked more like Cherie Currie than Dakota Fanning did.
The break up scene was very powerful, and when the lights were turned off and and you saw Joan's face you could tell that she felt as if everything she'd worked for was crumbling.
However, the film needed to have several parts cut out of it, random scenes that didn't help the movie at all. For instance, the scene where Joan is in the bath tub thinking of the lyrics for a new song is cool, but when she's filmed under water it's just odd and pointless. Also the scene where Cherie Currie is dancing around in her room singing 'Fever" is a bit unnecessary.
All in all, this is a very fast paced, good "rock 'n roll" movie, I suppose.
(And, according to Joan Jett, it's alright that the band broke up when it did. Most of them were around fifteen when they started to make music- they were The Runaways then, but you can't be a runaway when you're eighteen or nineteen or twenty).
