Weak story telling and bad directing broke these Runaways up....

Rating: 6/10 (17 June 2010)

I don't know why all the love, I thought the movie didn't cover anything about the Runaways in depth, it was random scenes in their career that really didn't jell into a real movie about them or explain anything about their lives. The movie was just the chick from twilight doing a hammy Jett impression and Dakota in not one of her better acting jobs as Cheri.
With that said, the 70's was a interesting time for music and the Runaways were one of the better of that period. This movie was very superficial about their rise and ignores a lot of key details. It doesn't even establish that this band went through various musicians and spanned half a decade. If you took this movie as gospel you would think they had one Hit and maybe two albums in the span of a year then broke up, because a time line is never established.
The movie needed a re-edit to clear through the muddled directing and poor story structure. But it wasn't bad, dunno about recommending it on it's own merits. I had to google about the girls and the band just to figure out what was trying to be told. But hell Joan was in a class of her own in the 80's, in the 70's the Runaways had a lot to learn and a lot of potential. Too bad the movie ignored most of the band and told nothing.
But hell, I guess if you have Dakota fanning acting as a half naked Jailbait 70's rock princess on drugs and The twilight Chick running around in her underwear most people won't see the the plot holes or crappy directing and rave about it's originality for all the wrong reasons.