Great Soundtrack, Boring Movie

Rating: 5/10 (21 December 2007)

Ian Curtis made some excellent music with Joy Division but the story of his life doesn't really make for an entertaining or exciting film. Joy Division fans and most music fans will know Ian wrote emotional and dark lyrics, had a unique dance style, had epilepsy, cheated on his wife and hung himself this movie portrays all this but is very boring and doesn't really do much else. If you want to see and hear his music on film or check out the dance moves just type in Joy Division on Youtube. The black and white did suit this movie and the acting and soundtrack was superb (it'd be pretty damn hard to make a film about joy division and have a bad soundtrack anyway)but the story is just so uninteresting. The film about factory records 24 Hour Party People is much better. Even though Joy Division make up a small part of the film and the actor doesn't really look like Ian as a movie it is a lot more entertaining and interesting.