One of the recent music documentaries I eagerly and excitedly looked forward to viewing, "Gimme Danger" delivers just like The Stooges at their best: lively and loud. Kickstarting with Iggy Pop's trailer park background to his musical forays to his meeting with the other band members the film takes the viewer to a musical odyssey of drugs, bad luck, violence, mayhem and of course, ripping great music. Priceless footage (many I haven't seen before), great photos, amusing toons and snippets of various films to complement the story and interviews with the band and their affiliates round up a generally quiet and pretty sedate but nonetheless highly-charged tribute. If there are complaints I have on the doc it's the failure to highlight the music and the importance and influence the band had on Rock and Popular music as a whole. Brief musical interludes pop out throughout the film and there's a cool segment of great bands performing Stooges songs with classic albums the band influenced shown but more music and interviews with acts and individuals the band influenced would have hit like a power chord on why the band matters. Well-written and directed by Jim Jarmusch (who looks like a punk himself) this is a compelling memorial to a great and innovative band who altered the face and substance of Rock music to a bracing and more riveting degree. "Search and Destroy"!
Review of Gimme Danger
