You know those Heritage Minutes about Canadian history? This felt like that but drawn out over a feature length documentary. Talking heads, over and over, about how Lightfoot was great. Yes, he was a great songwriter and musician. I think you can understand that by listening to a couple of his best songs. You don't need that over and over again from different people in a feature length documentary, though. It was cool to see Rush come in, and also Neil Young, but WHY was Alec Baldwin in this so much? He just seemed a bit random and out of place. Is he just a Lightfoot fan? OK, but that could have been explained somehow. Context is good.
Look, a great documentary should have some drama to it, some mystery, some narrative drive. This doc is more of a straightforward retelling of Lightfoot's career, song by song, and talking about the mechanics of the songwriting. This could be of interest to musicians, perhaps, but not most moviegoers. There isn't enough intrigue here.
