Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

VividSimon Simply Perfect

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Stephen As a lifelong Beatle fan, who grew up listening to the Beatles and John Lennon, the film made me feel that John was still with us.This film is a must see for any Beatle and/or Lennon fan. It is also a must see for younger generations who really wanted to know what the 1960s was all about and see the cultural shift that was taking place throughout the world.One of the executive producers was an acquaintance of mine. At the time that I first saw the movie, I did not know that this acquaintance was an executive producer. I saw his name in the credits, and also a Thanks acknowledgment to him. I had wondered if it was the same Steven Rothenberg that I met when I was a freshman at Stanford. He was a senior that lived down the hall in the same dormitory where I stayed. Sadly, I have since learned that Steve passed away in 2009. I remember him as a very bright, kind, humble, creative and funny guy. He was always approachable, always cheerful, and he tolerated us squirrelly freshman.

njmollo The U.S. vs. John LennonI have nothing but problems with this documentary. Firstly, this is a manipulated version of the events. The seal of 'Authorized' has cost this documentary its impartiality and honesty.This documentary has all the hallmarks of a Yoko Ono production. She is portrayed as a sympathetic talented artist with a heart of gold and inseparable if not the catalyst of John Lennon's emerging talent. So the message of this poor documentary is that 'John would have been nothing without Yoko!'Not once is Julian Lennon mentioned in this perversion of History. Julian suffered all his young life with the pain of being ignored and rejected by his own Father. Yet when Yoko's son is born it is reported as if this experience is revelatory and the only one of significance. John and Yoko were having relationship problems before he died. In fact John was sleeping with another Asian girl introduced to him by Yoko. When John started to fall for her, Yoko terminated the relationship.It is a crime that John Lennon's legacy and fortune are in the hands of Yoko Ono who has proved on numerous occasions how morally malleable she is. Julian Lennon on the other hand is forced to go to auctions to bid for articles that once belonged to his dad. He still to this day not received a penny of John Lennon's wealth.The final insult to John's memory is having a sell-out like Geraldo Rivera comment on his life.

brainwave-2 For how revolutionary the subject matter is, there's little revolutionary about this bland doc (except maybe the cool graphics). Revelations about Nixon and Hoover's attempt to deport Lennon are very interesting and are heightened by his lawyer's appealing interviews, but that takes up only about a half hour of the film. The first 45 minutes is setting up ground work: who John was and what was going on at the time. While this would probably be appealing for a teenager, for those of us who lived through the era it's pretty simple stuff. Once everything is wrapped up pretty nicely the last 20 minutes are spent on his death, without fully describing the details of it. The teenagers who were educated by the first forty minutes are then left feeling that his death had some connection to the persecutions he received in his life – I assume this is done to intensify their argument. When in reality, the tragedy of his death was exactly that it was for no reason at all. Just like in the 60s and 70s, Lennon is still being used as a puppet.

JoeKarlosi As a die-hard Beatles and John Lennon fan I deliberately dragged my feet in catching this recent documentary, thinking I'd probably have seen it all, particularly with respect to rare footage. I also figured since I knew the basics of the story, I wouldn't be very impressed. Boy, was I wrong - not only in that there are some nice unusual snippets of interviews with Lennon ("time wounds all heels" - heh heh!), but also in the power of this retrospective on the man. I've never been much interested in politics, but this had me hooked from beginning to end regarding John's struggle with the government over his controversial political leanings and then the underhanded, fearful, and evil tactics used by Nixon and his cronies to try and get Lennon deported from the country. As I grow older I feel that I am in the middle with a tendency to veer more to what they call the "right", but this film had me pulled strongly back over to the "left" and made me re-think who the "good guys and the bad guys" really are.In addition to being treated to various vintage pieces of exciting Lennon footage, what I loved about this presentation most was that I thought it nailed John as a person right on the bullseye. In many ways I would recommend this film to newcomers, perhaps even over the more traditional IMAGINE: JOHN LENNON (1988). While this one's focus is largely on the man's politics, it also gives an excellent picture of Lennon's biting sarcasm, his wit, his rebellious nature, his tender side, his love, his hopes, his humanity, and all those other things that we fans came to love about him and made us feel like we could relate to him and knew him. When the inevitable tragic end comes to be, we are truly shaken and saddened after 90 minutes with this special person who contributed so much.Once again I will add that although so many Beatle and "Lennon fans" are so "anti-Yoko," I can't for the life of me understand how they can watch a sincere movie like this which features Yoko's heartfelt recollections fairly frequently, and still view her with such disdain after this experience - especially in light of the fact that she and John obviously loved each other, and Lennon always needed someone just like her, all of his life. It's so naturally presented here that even in his early days John was always a bit different, always outspoken and controversial, and desperately required a woman who was his ultimate equal in that department. Listen to their words, watch them together. Try to forget that the Beatles split up, and just respect the man's needs and realize how right John and Yoko's union was, and that it was meant to be. John Lennon still shines on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun. ***1/2 out of ****