Grimerlana Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Edison Witt The first must-see film of the year.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

gagathefirst Just to make clear: Cobain is one of my favorite people i lived among in this planet. This documentary is so bad, is funny. Aesthetically it is awful, no taste at all like a cheap crime tv show, you must really lack talent to make something THAT bad, considering you have all of these exhibits (true of false) and still make this conservative, inhuman piece of work. Putting the horrible photography aside, putting the horrible acting (this is a mean person look the actor, he/she is trying so hard to show you that his/her character is so mean you would understand it even on mute) also aside, the "director" should be ashamed portraying Courtney Love as vicious by using cheap puritanical shots of "people making out in the same room with her" (evil duh?), "her friend touched her in a -probably- erotic way" (a bisexual probably? What a nasty person, duh?), a junkie (as also Kurt,duh?). This is insulting at least and pure stupidity if the director took by the book the descriptions of Mr Grant - who is anyway focused in a purpose, find justice or cash a death, and, you know, i don't really care, because demonizing people through their weaknesses, habits, orientation and other paleolithic, human-hating point of views is pure TRASH and all of people made this should be ashamed. Cobain would spit on this first, even murdered.

si-baker If you know the story surrounding Kurt Cobain's death then there are no spoilers in this review.Documentaries are seen to be unembellished, an altruistic person(s) is trying to tell you a horrible truth based on factual evidence. However, ever since I watched Zeitgeist 10 years ago and subsequently discovered it contain very little factual knowledge. I have always been skeptical of documentaries. This one is no different.The first moments after watching this documentary I felt uneasy, like someone is pushing me just too hard in a certain direction. I couldn't fact check any content, and then I read Roger Ebert's review, '"it's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it." And he was right. This film was done in a very odd way.You are subject to a dramatisation of events from Tom Grants memories. The character of Courtney is a stereotypical villain, no emotion, compassion or empathy. Constantly conniving and plotting. Tom, however, is represented as the selfless hero hell bent on getting to the truth. Regardless of the costs. It seems a bit 'panto' to be considered an accurate representation of character.The interviews with the experts also have a 'pantomime' feel. Shot in a room with a large glass roof with a storm raging outside, all that was missing was Courtney's cackle echoing in the distance.Many assertions are too woolly, seemingly contrived to give more weight to the writers beliefs. For example Kurt is described as non-suicidal, even happy. A trove of old friends are paraded in front of you to corroborate this, his depressive lyrics and song titles are put down to excessive fan analysis. I find this very hard to believe about a heroin addict who wanted a divorce and spent much of his time alone, he might not have been depressed, but happy?Factual evidence is presented but not fully analysed. We are told about Kurt's suicide note several times, it is analysed to see if it could have been forged and analysed linguistically to see if it makes sense. But at no point do we get to read what it actually says (and we get to read a lot of other things). Needless to say I have read it since, and it shows the thoughts of a depressed man, who by all accounts wants to die.By the end of the documentary I had one blindingly obvious question which seems to be ignored in the whole documentary. Why, if you were going to kill a heroin addict, would you give them an overdose of heroin AND shoot them in the head with a shotgun? Makes no sense. Its more risky, more likely to go wrong and leaves more questions to be asked by law enforcement.The documentary does do a good job of highlighting poor police work by the Seattle Police Department, but this does not mean Kurt Cobain was murdered.In summary the documentary lacked logic. The Director and Producers were clearly trying to sway audience opinions using cheap tactics and all in all it lessens the punch of some of the facts they do enlighten you with. Be careful when watching this, it definitely needs to be taken with a pinch of salt.

bea seung Please, just please explain to me how can a person give 1 star to this documentary? Are you kidding me? This documentary has no BS in it, only facts, audio recordings, real documents, real experts and if you choose to not believe it, well that's YOUR problem, because you are too blind to see what's clearly a murder here. This movie exposes everything on the table, shows you only facts to rely on and it's basically the biggest proof you can have about the real cause of the death of Kurt Cobain. This movie was really well done, with excellent acting and mixes real audio recordings with the voice of the actors. This documentary is as real as it can get, and only a blind person can unsee that. If you want to continue the theory that Kurt Cobain killed himself because you want to hear Nirvana songs more depressingly or you just like Courtney Love too much, then don't even watch this documentary so you can say it's not worth the watch. If you really want to know the real reason Kurt Cobain died, then this movie is for you. We CAN'T let this pass through our eyes, Kurt Cobain deserved a better life, he was a beautiful human and he should have justice, especially when he's blamed for his own death. This film is really good and I hope it can bring justice.

kwallsea When Hollywood portrays Seattle by placing large water hoses absolutely gushing over windows like rainfall one would envision during a full blown hurricane and not at all a realistic portrayal of Seattle weather, but merely the facade constantly portrayed by bad Hollywood directors and writers, how can I believe anything else portrayed in this film? Highly inaccurate and therefore utterly unbelievable to me. Shame on anyone who exploits human tragedy for their own personal gain. Regarding the so called facts presented by Tom Grant, it just felt desperate and very Hollywood, and like he had an axe to grind with Courtney Love, and an opportunity to make some money by making this film. There wasn't any real evidence that would convince me one way or the other about the circumstances of Kurt's death. I think Courtney was a junky herself that may not have known what she was even talking about much of the time. No secret that she too was a wreck. Bottom line...this film is garbage...from the extremely ridiculously false Hollywood portrayal of Seattle to the shameful spin of events to create yet another Hollywood conspiracy theory.