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Rating: Null/10 (5 January 2001)

I could not love this film more. It's beautiful and does everything right, there's never a moment left untouched. Ewan McGregor is like a God and should rightfully be recognized as one. His performance soars above the rest of the cast and him onstage literally leaves me with goose bumps....but....come on! Could he quite possibly look more like Kurt Cobain-one of the only great musical geniuses of my generation and my personal God? I mean of all things, did his name have to be Curt? Sure, I'd like just as much as anyone to see a movie about the grunge revolution and have it star Ewan McGregor, but Kurt Cobain and Iggy Pop? Hey, I respect Iggy for what he did for music as much as the next guy, but it's not much of a comparison. I don't know if this was a conscious relation but to have two such different scenes in music look so similar is slightly unnerving. Otherwise, the movie is a winner. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers IS David Bowie (maybe even what Bowie never could be) and everything falls together perfectly. Certainly the best movie about the 70s I've ever seen.