Director: Davis Guggenheim
Year: 2009
I won't tell you to not see it, cause face it, if you like these guitarists, you are going to be just as anxious as I was to see it... but you might be let down.
The Edge, Jimmy Page, and Jack White get together to talk guitars, while the film attempts to explore a bit of their background with the instruments in order to explain their different styles and approaches. Some really good music gets pulled out of the closet by White and Page, so take notes on which overlooked bands you're now going to need to add to your i-pod. But ultimately this doc directed by the over-hyped Guggenheim lets us down because just as in "An Inconvenient Truth" his skills as a documentarian lay more in the visuals and big premise than in actually investigating and giving us an in-depth, revealing film.
We also never get the promised loud moment. Things stay pretty calm, and non of these guys really busts a gut playing something spectacular for the audience.
Interesting fiction bits with Jack White teaching Jack White as a kid about rock and roll... but still, Guggenheim is really the one lacking the chops, not the guitarists. That's why this film falls flat. The best moment is when Jack White hand-makes his own single-string steel guitar.
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