VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Megamind To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

Forumrxes 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.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . when he made PERFORMANCE, or if this inchoate mishmash somehow could be given a meaningful context. The Truth can now be told. The team of prognosticating Cassandras at Warner Bros. have perfectly captured the inner workings of the Rump White House nearly 50 years before the fact with PERFORMANCE. Jagger himself plays Rump, called "Turner" here, since Rump's such a Flip-Flopper (Democrat one day, Repug the next). In the role of Steve Bannon is James Fox. His "Chas" character is Rump/Turner's toughest thug, whether in the White House or not. Extortion Ringleader "Harry Flowers" captures the venality of closet KKK Grand Dragon/U.S. "Attorney General" Beauregard Sessions to a T, with the mendacious sadist "Rosie" playing White House Chief of Staff John "Pinocchio" Kelly to the hilt. Even dismissed FBI director James Comey is shown receiving Beauregard's knife-in-the-back, when Rosie slips it to "Joey Maddocks" as the hapless Fed. Melancholia Rump goes full-frontal in the guise of "Pherber," while Chas/Bannon gets naughty in the bathtub with First Daughter Iwanna Rump (a birthday-suited "Lucy" here). Though Warner's current release GEOSTORM has suggested to some that only a Patriotic Secret Service Agent taking their Constitutional Oath seriously is in a position to end Rump's Madness, an eventually double-crossed Chas/Bannon delivers the Coup De Grace here in PERFORMANCE.

Art Vandelay After the p-rnographic opening sequence there are about 15 minutes of compelling 70s British crime drama. Then Fox goes on the run and the whole movie swirls irretrievably into the toilet. There's more p-rn, this time with Anita Pallenberg looking like she's strung out on heroin. There's a boy(?) in a dress or is that just a fat ugly girl? There's Mick Jagger looking as pale as death. I can't be the only one on Earth who thinks this - isn't he about the ugliest human being not named Carrot Top or Steven Tyler (Aerosmith)? What a mess. Roeg must have consumed a metric tonne of drugs in his day to have churned out movie after movie after movie of self-indulgent, p- rnographic drivel.

Alex da Silva Gangster James Fox (Chas) quite correctly exacts revenge on fellow bad-guy Anthony Valentine (Joey). But, this goes against the wishes of his boss Johnny Shannon (Harry) and so he has to go into hiding to prepare his escape from the country. The police are also looking for him although they don't figure at all in this film. Fox holes up in a house owned by faded rock star Mick Jagger (Turner) which he shares with a couple of druggy hippie chicks – Anita Pallenberg (Pherber) and Michèle Breton (Lucy). These three swap philosophies and indulge in a spot of identity swapping as well as a magic mushroom breakfast. Fox goes on a trip and he and Jagger truly become one. Meanwhile the gangsters are still searching for Fox… This film definitely has 2 parts – the beginning gangster story and then the unworldly lodgings with Jagger. The latter part of the film is quite amusing and both my wife and I commented that we should spend all our afternoons like that, especially when they are partying to the music. Let's all get a bit boho. I'm sure there are things to spot on another viewing. The cast are good although Johnny Shannon (Harry) doesn't quite cut it as top dog. His surname is Flowers, though, which suggests a pansy in charge – and the Krays are obviously given another nod in this offering by look-a-like gangsters.Both lifestyles no longer survive – the gangster world is totally different as is the bohemian lifestyle on show. Who does mushrooms these days? Back in the day, though….

InjunNose "Performance" gets off to a very strong start, locking the viewer's eyes to the screen as it depicts the brutish, unsavory life of Chas (James Fox), an enforcer for an eccentric London crime boss (Johnny Shannon). Chas is reliable as a hard man--a little too reliable, in fact--and after making trouble for his employer he scrambles for a place to hide out. So ends the first half of the film, and it couldn't be better; Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg create a dark, desperate atmosphere with lots of tight shots and off-kilter dialogue that somehow convinces despite its artificiality. The second half of the film is, to be honest, a complete mess. Chas finds refuge in the crumbling home of Turner (Mick Jagger), a former pop star turned recluse, and it is here that "Performance" becomes not Jagger's film (visually he's great, but he doesn't have much presence as an actor), as advertised, but Anita Pallenberg's. She's drug-addled, shrill and NEVER stops talking--and none of it makes the least sense. This section of the film, with its references to Borges and Burroughs and the supposedly flexible nature of reality and identity, has not aged well. Nevertheless, Jagger does shine while snarling his solo track 'Memo from Turner' (with bottleneck guitar backing from Ry Cooder), and "Performance" redeems itself as Chas's pursuers catch up to him and his world violently collides with Turner's. Will you wonder what actually happened at the end of the movie? Yes, but the emotional impact of the closing scene renders any logical explanation unnecessary. Weak as its second half is, this film has more than enough going for it to qualify as a cinematic masterpiece.