Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

How sad is this?

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

A point has been argued now for decades about which stones tour was the best amongst said fans. this '72 tour is usually overwhelmingly the most popular (I prefer the '78 USA tour but hey?) They had 2 of the greatest albums of the 20th century to pull songs from ( Exile and Sticky Fingers ) not to mention other songs Gimme Shelter, Honky Tonk..., Jumpin... which were at the time relatively fresh from studio and therefore more enthusiastically delivered to the audiences on this 72 tour. The umpteen bootlegs of this tour attest to this with amazing performances, the recording(s) of Stevie Wonder in Philadelphia is/are a clear example. The guys themselves were fired up and couldn't wait to back in the USA after the Altamont misery and they burned through the states and wrote the book on rock n roll excess which the likes of led zep followed to a tee and all this was caught and very well I might add on camera in Texas on a couple of what must have been roasting hot nights. The stones glory captured in its prime, the best tour, the best albums, pre-heroin and Mick Taylor on lead guitar. Treasure it! A superb "No Thrills" document of Rock n' Roll at its most glorious.

From what's now more or less accepted as their peak period, certainly as a live act, this composite of two 1972 North American concerts made for a great in-flight movie on a recent trip home, courtesy of my Ipod.Okay, said composite makes for one or two costume-continuity problems, but the set is obviously as-played and has a natural flow not to say verve as it kicks off with "Brown Sugar" and later hits the home straight courtesy of the 1-2 knockout punch of "Jumping Jack Flash" and "Street Fighting Man" at the close.It helps of course that the band was showcasing, with hindsight, their last great album "Exile On Main Street", seven songs of which get aired and otherwise they focus on the golden 1968 - 1972 period exclusively (even "Satisfaction" doesn't make it onto the play-list). The song selection probably owes as much to a due deference to the stronger post Decca/Abcko Jimmy Miller produced material, as well as a sop to recent inductee Mick Taylor, who takes most of the leads here.Musically, not everything comes off - "You Can't Always Get What You Want" gets reduced to a big chorus, the verses lacking the debauched irony of the studio cut while "Gimme Shelter" as wrongly ignores the female counterpoint vocal as the mistaken inclusion of brass, but there are many riches elsewhere. The 100 mph takes on "Happy", "All Down The Line" and "Rip This Joint" amply demonstrate the band's enthusiasm for these newly-minted "Exile" classics, while this year's enthusiastic dues-paying Chuck Berry re-tread is "Bye Bye Johnny" (it was "Let It Rock" the year before). "Midnight Rambler" too finds an inflamed Jagger on his knees, whipping the stage with his belt in the blood-curdling mid-section.As a movie, there's not much to comment on. There are many camera-settings which helps maintain viewer interest with scant audience reaction shots and the amphitheatre-sized setting (as opposed to latter-day arena-sized stagings) means Mick doesn't have to run about so much and we get a satisfying number of shots of the whole band in the one frame. Oh and Keith looks great before he aged a hundred years (and slowed down accordingly) around the turn of the 80's.This is a great document of the self-proclaimed world's greatest rock and roll band in their prime, pretty much all killer and no filler. As a concert-movie it's more run-of-the-mill, compared to modern day standards, but here without the wholly unnecessary guest star shots, not to mention star director turn of the most recent Stones concert film (which won't be the last!) the focus here is on the music and Stones fans will surely love it, just like I did!

What a great movie. What really steals the show (so to speak) is the soundtrack. Good golly, does it get any better than this? OK, Frank Zappa's "Baby Snakes" is almost as good. This movie is as good as it gets. The star-studded cast is everything it needs. It's an ambitious movie and it lives up to its potential, right to the very last Mick Taylor guitar guitar solo which closes it out. Breathtaking!!!The high point of this brilliant movie occurs not too far into the picture when they do "Tumbling Dice". And the apex there is (of course) the guitar solo played so deftly by Mick Taylor. And as if the song were the microcosm of the movie, the close of the song with Keith pumping out the chorded rhythms and Mick Taylor playing the single-note lines of the same, it gently lands and breaks, just like a Lear Jet coming home.Before this great song, a couple of songs back, the plot thickens with "Gimme Shelter". Again, it's the soundtrack riding high, adding to the movie's aural texture. The staging of the song is cool. At almost the right time the big spotlight turns on Mick Taylor as his soling (but not him) takes center stage as the main focus of the song. Wow! This alone is worth the price of admission.See this movie. Put on your dancing shoes, chuck the popcorn and list3en closely, following every single note.

I saw this movie about 15 years ago and thought it was great. The screening was presented by someone who had worked on the movie. An assistant director or something, and I can recall him saying that the only surviving copies of this film were damaged in some way. The picture on the print I saw was screwed up for about the first 5 minutes of the movie. After that it was OK. Maybe that is why this has never been released to DVD.Anyway, this is The Stones at their best. I wish they would release this to DVD, even if the picture is flawed. For that matter, why has Let It Be not been released on DVD?