Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out (2006)

Director:

Stewart Copeland

Release Date:

31 March 2007 (Japan)

Genre:

Documentary | Music

Plot:

Stewart Copeland, drummer for The Police, compiles his Super 8 footage for an intimate look at what it was like to be a member of one of the world's biggest rock bands. |

Cast

Terry Chambers	...	Himself
Ian Copeland	...	Himself
Miles A. Copeland III	...	Himself
Stewart Copeland	...	Himself (archive footage)
Dave Gregory	...	Himself
Colin Moulding	...	Himself
Andy Partridge	...	Himself
Danny Quatrochi	...	Himself
Jeff Seitz	...	Himself
Sting	...	Himself (archive footage)
Andy Summers	...	Himself (archive footage)
Kim Turner	...	Himself

Runtime:

USA:74 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Quotes:

Sting: I blame the man behind the camera for all my troubles.

Not at all what it should have been.

I have quite a few problems with this documentary, being a huge fan of The Police. (Own "Message in a Box", saw them live in 2007, I'm totally influenced by them in my own music...) This was a major letdown. Here's the problem.

Copeland is a terrible narrator, half the film he's mumbling on and has such little charisma for narrating a documentary. The quality of his super8 camera is brutal, and that in itself wouldn't be so bad, but the WHOLE documentary is basically told with this super8 grainy, look.

It doesn't capture the actual soul of what the Police were. It basically follows 79-84, as if it were just, "Oh then we got a track on the charts, then we went to a concert, then we did some traveling, oh then we did some more shows, now we're big, then we released a couple albums, then a few more shows, now it's over." The only sense of conflict in the band you will get in the WHOLE documentary is the following quips.

Stewart: I'm starting to hate this band.

Sting: Stewart... I blame you for all my problems.

--- That's it. This is the so called band that had it's drummer break the lead singers ribs, get into fistfights, and downright hate each other, but at the same time record some of the greatest rock music ever. It basically is something slapped together, with some old footage, called a Police DOCUMENTARY and it just, has no thread. Nothing, I can only say, SOME (but little), of the documentary was okay, and had a couple cool things going for it, some interesting little parts to it, but way to little to even make this a repeat viewing.

If you're a die hard police fan, it's only an hour, and you might get a chuckle, and a "Oh cool.", but believe me, for the 5 minutes of total time where you're interested, there's another 60 of boring crap. Why can't Martin Scorsese do a Police documentary?