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27 out of 30 people found the following review useful:
Biased, yes, but solid and never boring, 14 March 2001
Author: Hotoil

Is it objective? No. Is it informative? Yes. Is is accurate? Only as accurate as those talked to. Is it an interesting film? Without a doubt.

This should have been called "Trying To Make 'Kurt & Courtney", because he never succeeds in making a decent look at their relationship but rather an intriguing look at his struggle to get the whole thing off the ground. He ran into a lot of trouble via Courtney Love and of course threw in his feelings toward her quite obviously in the film.

Fans of Kurt may respect it, fans of Courtney are likely to despise it. I admit I am more a fan of Kurt than I could ever be of Courtney, he just seems a hell of a lot more real to me and she has scared me, long before this film made, with all the image make-overs and lame self-promoting publicity stunts. So I had no problem watching her get ripped into in this documentary. But a warning to hardcore HOLE fans, you may get extremely frustrated!

Like it or hate it, it won't bore you!

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19 out of 25 people found the following review useful:
You'll be on the edge of your seat...., 18 September 1999

Author: John Seal from Oakland CA

....waiting to see if Ms Courtney punches out director/interviewer Nick Broomfield. Whether or not there is any truth to the vague rumours that the Queen of Grunge killed the King, Kurt and Courtney is a riveting exercise in docu-propaganda. Broomfield doesn't do a good job of hiding his disdain for Courtney, but neither does anyone else on screen. Father Hank Harrison hates her, ex boyfriends hate her, Kurt's friends think she was the master manipulator...and El Duce (killed one short month after the interview in this film by a passing freight train!!) says she offered him money to kill Kurt. Why? Who knows. The only well adjusted person in this film is Kurt's aunt, and she thinks it was suicide.

Whatever your personal feelings, this is a fascinating film.

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17 out of 24 people found the following review useful:
Smells like rivalry, 9 July 2003

Author: Shazzer30 from Florida, USA

I heard somewhere that Courtney Love tried like the dickens to get this little documentary banned. If there is no truth to it, why would she care so much? Makes you think...

Nick Bloomfield interviews people a courtroom wouldn't consider reliable witnesses- El Duce, for one- a singer who was one bizarre addict himself. He claims Love offered him $50,000 to kill Cobain. Looking at this guy, you automatically rely on his testimony like your local weather report. Still, it is very interesting that weeks after this interview, El Duce was found dead on the railroad tracks by his home. An investigor who was at Cobain's "suicide" scene claims Cobain had way too much heroin in his system to be coherent enough to pull a trigger on himself with any accuracy. Cobain's Aunt claims the whole conspiracy theory is a load of bunk, and she feels Kurt had suicidal tendencies as well as addictions. Yet most of the people interviewed agree that Courtney was a vindictive slag, jealous of Cobain's success and tried to hitch her wagon to Nirvana's rising star (memories of Courtney and Kurt on the cover of the now defunked "Sassy" magazine, with Courtney trying to portray herself has the Nancy Spungen of the '90's comes to mind). I've never been a big Love or "Hole" fan, mainly because I don't think Love is that talented a musician or singer. I feel she has what they call "delusions of grandure", which is why this documentary, for as shaky as the evidence presented is, makes me wonder if it isn't the naked truth.

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9 out of 12 people found the following review useful:
A little speculative..., 17 May 2008

Author: Henry Fields (kikecam@teleline.es) from Spain

Nick Broomfield tries to clarify that absurd theory that says that Kurt Cobain was murdered. No one would actually believe that Kurt was killed because it is quite clear that his addiction and his depression killed him.

Anyway, Broomfield lets everyone to make their point, all those that defend the conspiration theory. But let me tell you, some of them, just like Courtney Love's father or that grotesque guy called The Duce are not reliable sources precisely.

Maybe Nick goes too far accusing Courtney. I mean, she's not Mother Theresa, but she isn't the root of all evil either. She's nothing but an arrogant and eccentric rockstar... just like most of people there in Hollywood.

Otherwise, "Who killed Kurt...?" has valious moments for all the fans of Kurt: early recordings, interviews with some of his relatives and childhood friends...

*My rate: 6/10

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6 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
Excellent documentary!, 24 December 2001

Author: Nobody-27 from California

Not being particularly interested in either Kurt or Courtney, I was surprised how director Nick Broomfield managed to attract me to his film. His unique style gets us involved with the story that no one really knows where it's going. Not even the director himself. This may prove frustrating to those who have become accustomed to polished and hollywoodized type of film making, or those who are looking for a clear "angle". To me however, it was a wonderful gallery of many slices of real life: from director's own challenges to one of the best documentary film endings I've ever seen.

Hats off to Nick Broomfield for his uncompromising style and bravery.

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3 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
A sad loss that no murder will repair, 30 April 2007

Author: Dr Jacques COULARDEAU from Olliergues, France

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

A very strange documentary about the death of Kurt Cobain. Is it a suicide as announced or is it a murder as suspected and asserted by several people and is Courtney the origin of this murder? Quite a few question that are not that easy to answer and actually the documentary does not get to no answer, no final answer and it is maybe better like that. What would it bring into the picture if these hypotheses were true? Nothing. The loss of Kurt Cobain will not be repaired by a police investigation and then a trial. No matter how strange this death was one thing seems to be sure: Kurt Cobain was being pushed into some extreme depression by the castrating and controlling obsession of his wife Courtney. She did get a huge profit out of this death but that could have been a good motivation but it is in no way a proof or a piece of hard evidence. So let's cry and lament and let's hope what Kurt Cobain left behind will be stronger than the loss of his future.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine & University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne

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3 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
The Great Comedy of 1998, 24 July 2000
Author: chickenpotpie from colorado

I think that this is a very sad movie. It should have been called "Jerry Springer Casting Session with Two Scenes of Courtney Love." Like how bored was Nick Broomfield? I think that he is obsessed with Courtney because he was acting like a stalker and following her around. I wish she would have gotten ahold of him. He totally wussed out several times when he could have talked to her and maybe gotten a real answer for his banal and cliched crapumentary. Instead he just interviewed weirdo after weirdo. He has nothing better to do than trash Courtney Love and blame her for everything. I think it was very funny to watch all the overdramatic people he found for this movie. It was like "Waiting For Guffman Part 2" except "Kurt & Courney" was not intended to be funny and suprisingly no one in the movie worked at a Dairy Queen. He acts like he is horrified of Courtney and we should all be afraid fo her. I think the movie clearly showed that she just wants to put the past in the past and move on with her life without some idiots following her around picketing about her dead husband.

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3 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
Another great Broomfield documentary, 11 February 1999
Author: cinefan from California, U.S.A.

Nick Broomfield is a great documentary filmmaker - his pics on Heidi Fleiss & Aileen Wuoronos are especially effective. He was criticized for this film being too one-sided and featuring himself too much. But, as you watch the film, you realize he really had no choice because, everyone (especially people who are pro-Courtney) is terrified of suffering the wrath of Courtney (who is, no matter who you hear from, obviously a violent psychotic) if they speak out in Nick's film. This leaves only people with nothing to lose (addicts, losers, and disgruntled ex-employees) to interview. Thus, most of the footage consists of Broomfield desperately trying to glean ANY information on his chosen subject. What we learn we learn by reading between the lines. For instance, the very fact that Love put pressure on his financers from the very beginning of his filming speaks volumes. If Broomfield didn't set out to lambast her at the start, she certainly helped change his mind quickly. The film does little to clear up the decidedly murky circumstances of Cobain's death (though the guy seemed to be a walking suicidal time-bomb). What it does prove is that Love basically got her claws into Kurt, chewed him up, spit him out, and got his millions - all in a span of about three years! And it's all worth it to see Broomfield call an auditorium full of hypocrites - the ACLU - on the carpet for allowing Love, who regularly makes death threats to journalists, to be their spokesperson for free speech.

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4 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
Let It Go!, 23 June 2005

Author: Andrew Liggins from United Kingdom

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This was an excellent film, however, as usual, we have people pointing the finger immediately at Courtney Love. Let it go! The film proved to me, if anything, that Courtney wasn't responsible, since both Nick and Kurt's Aunt. Mary both arrived at the conclusion that the conspiracy theories weren't true. If the Police, or FBI, or whatever, believed Courtney was reponsible, she would have been tried, and prosecuted accordingly years ago. This idea that she paid the authorities off is ridiculous! The film also shows one of Kurt's best friends, Dylan Carlson, saying that if he thought Courtney, or anyone, was responsible for Kurt's death, he would have them killed years before the movie was released. That's Kurt's best friend, and his own Aunt who don't believe there was any conspiracy surrounding Kurt's death. People who were obsessed by Kurt don't want to believe that he killed himself, and that's the only reason why people blame Courtney. Let it go, and let Kurt rest in peace.

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2 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
If you love KURT learn COURTNEY, 13 September 2003

Author: forecastmazy from Fairfield, Ct

Kurt Cobain was the most influential rock star of the 1990s. Within the two years that Nirvana had reached it's peak fame, the youth trembled with a new wave of interest in life. A new rebellion. And a new source of income for future widow Courtney Love.

If you love Nirvana, and love Kurt more particularly, this film should be your first step in discovering what REALLY happened with Kurt Cobain's death. It was not a suicide, and evidence upon evidence will put silence to the cynics who simply want the past to stay in the past.

Courtney Love is NO innocent. I mean, I'm reviewing a film so I cannot reveal my true feelings about Courtney, but before watching this I had read articles upon articles on what Courtney did to Kurt during their years together and how INSANE she was when she dated Smashing Pumpkins singer Billy Corgan. Look, just watch this movie. The filmmaker has an honest interest on uncovering exactly what happened to Kurt Cobain.

It's hard to describe the spine tingling feelings this film causes.

Just WATCH it.

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