Old and rich people play in front of old and rich people filmed by someone old and rich. Oh yeah, and they casted a couple of hundred young girls to dance dreamily in the front row. How can a band that once was so good become so awful?! OK, apparently nowadays Keith can't play to save his life and Mick's singing (and stage behavior) has become a a parody of his former self. Charlie's drumming is still good though. But they have background singers, a brass section and various keyboards trying to make up for what the Glimmer Twins can no longer deliver. As for the footage. Well Scorsese has 15 cameras whizzing to and fro and it's well shot and edited, but it just makes you wanna go back to Gimme Shelter (the Maysles Brothers film from 1970). Back then they had only two or three 16mm cameras to cover the shows but what the heck, the outcome was so much more Rock'n'Roll and back then the Stones were relevant. Here, everyone tries so hard to have fun, everyone pretends that this is the real thing when frankly everyone can see that it is rather pathetic and utterly pointless.
Review of Shine a Light
