I'll keep this brief. Gary Oldman is good - No surprise there. But aside from his snarling and slobbering portrayal of Sid, there's not much else to see here. In the brief intervals between Chloe Webb's whining, the film manages to veer into interesting visual territory. But ultimately it's unrewarding, at times treacly, heroin mythologizing, and historical inaccurate. What does director Alex Cox really know about the punk movement anyway? I would hardly rely on the impressions of an upper class intellectual, who was on his way to being a lawyer when punk happened. He was such an outsider that he turned to Joe Strummer of the Clash for help. Would no one from the Sex Pistols camp talk to him? He didn't even get Johnny Rotten's accent right. Skip this and watch Filth and the Fury instead.
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