aweful

although the main actor did a fairly decent job at capturing Hendrix's persona, overall this movie was horrible. as said before, it provides no insights about Hendrix, his bands, his career, or his drug abuse/death, but merely illustrates the highlights of his career sort of like a brief encycolpedia blurb.

the only original Jimi song played in the movie was Hey Joe- all the other were either made up for the movie, or cover songs. Must have something to do with the high cost of buying the license to use a song in the movie.

oh, another thing that bothered me, the actor smiled way too much. Jimi was a friendly guy, but did not smile that much during performances- was more like contorted face when he was getting into the music. maybe that's what the actor was trying to get at?