In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

This movie is a lot of archived shots of the Stones from (I think, not an expert) about '64 to '72, often overlaid with commentary by the Stones themselves recorded in 2012, with a bunch of unnecessary directorial flourish added on. I'm a big fan of the Stones, but I'm not a super fan, and I was born after the events covered in the film. For me, this movie does a nice job filling in some of the gaps in my knowledge. There are revelatory quotes, the band members are extremely insightful, there are some awesome photos and clips, and the movie does a great job showcasing what makes the Rolling Stones so cool. There's a lot to really like.On the other hand, the editing is hit or miss, the direction is all over the place, it fails to tell a comprehensive, or even coherent story, and the scope is unclear throughout. And the lack of comprehensiveness is significant. Few band members are introduced, some are never even mentioned, and that's to say nothing of producers, managers, girlfriends, Gram Parsons, etc. Important context and parts of the story are completely ignored.If you're obsessed with the Stones there's probably nothing interesting besides some of the interviews, if you don't know them pretty well it will be confusing, but as someone inbetween it stoked my imagination, and the band always radiates.

The movie is a lot of what The Stones are. A crazy madcap band, that ultimately, perhaps not by their own design, that the music survives. In the early going this look back captures the first wave of success which when it took off became a carnival of excess. Out from obscurity the guys just went with the crazed fans and did plenty on their own to stoke the insanity. In their defense their was plenty of pent-up of repressed decorum which the fans, especially the girls early on, morphed into a kind of heretofore unleashed out of bounds adoration. It just added more fuel to the fire which is captured here as kind of dangerous ride. It went on for several years without brakes.Life goes on and within it there is death and trouble. Brian Jones is ousted and dies while the band just keeps getting bigger. The next chapter with Mick Taylor, almost without a blip, only got bigger and more excessive. The viewer feels that this couldn't be right and so there was more trouble even while the music kept selling more and more. Another vaguely, but horrifically, related death at the Altamont concert causes a furor among many including blindsiding the band with things they couldn't contain. The music kept selling more and the excesses continued on.Now this is where the viewer feels a bit like how can this be? So many things should be in place to devastate a career. The Stones even left Britain as they felt they had become the whipping boys for all of the worst of society. Of course it was the realization that they had a hefty back tax bill to satisfy that really made the choice for them. With so much turmoil and Keith's ever increasing heroin addiction things could have careened off the rails. Again, the music didn't let the band, or fans, down. The Stones kept rolling and to save himself Mick Taylor eventually leaves. This is where the film loses it's quite linear trajectory. The rest of the story which includes Keith's famous Canadian bust gets a huge fast forward with big holes. Keith cleans up??? Ron Wood is in and even though it isn't mentioned by name The Stones return with their big statement which was incorrectly called "their comeback" album, as Some Girls, propels them past their sixties and seventies period into modern times. The rest gets hardly a mention which for a band celebrating their entire 50-year+ career seems strange.All in all this is a good, not definitive, look at the wild ride of a wild band. One that had the right elements to survive even as it barely fleshes out what exactly constituted that. I'd say in this regard it is for the fans and more of curiosity for others. Still the catalog of the music, which did include missteps, survives, ultimately making it more worthy of a look even though it is hardly completest.

I am a huge Stones fan. I thought this documentary was amazing from beginning to end. I was a little worried the end would become boring because lets face it, they are not the band they used to be but, it was great from beginning to end. The footage was great, the fact that they just used their voices was a great idea. If you are a Stones fan I don't know how you couldn't like this documentary. There is a ton of old footage and concert footage that was great. I would think even a non-fan would enjoy this because it is a fascinating story of the greatest rock band ever. To hear the band talk about the last year with Brian Jones and how that all went down was really interesting. Watch it!!

This is a nice documentary but way to short. After all this is about a band that has been making music and performing for 50 years. The focus seemed to be 1969 to 1976 with some early information thrown in. I was hoping the Stones entire career would be incorporated in this film. The 1978 and 1981 tours should definitely deserved more film time. Those were great tours. The 1972 tour was ground breaking. 1969 was infamous but very entertaining. 1975 was a great show. What about after 1981? The band went on a hiatus until 1989 when they went back on tour. Why not touch on that? There were tours after that 1994/1998/2002/2005 that could have been included. An extra hour or so would have been nice. The audio commentary by the band was very effective. It's only rock and roll but I like it.