{"id":8764,"date":"2015-01-14T14:18:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T22:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/?p=8764"},"modified":"2022-05-30T22:42:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T05:42:55","slug":"review-jimi-bd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/2015\/01\/review-jimi-bd\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimi: All Is By My Side Blu-ray Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Jimi: All is By My Side<\/em><\/strong> might\u2019ve had the best of intentions and despite an admirable performance from Andre Benjamin, who was clearly 10 years too old to play Hendrix, this was a misfire that began when the Hendrix estate wouldn\u2019t allow the use of his music which right there should\u2019ve cancelled the project.<\/p>\n

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Jimi: All is By My Side<\/span>
\n(2013)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Genre(s): <\/strong>Drama, Music
\nXLrator Media | R \u2013 118 min. \u2013 $24.99 | January 13, 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n <\/b>MOVIE INFO:
\n<\/span>Directed by: <\/strong>John Ridley
\nWriter(s): <\/strong>John Ridley (written by)
\nCast: <\/strong>Andre Benjamin, Hayley Atwell, Imogen Poots, Andrew Buckley, Adrien LesterDISC INFO:
\n<\/span>Features: <\/strong>Featurette, Theatrical Trailer
\nDigital Copy: <\/strong>No
\nNumber of Discs: <\/strong>1Audio: <\/strong>English (DTS-HD MA 5.1)
\nVideo: <\/strong>1080p\/Widescreen 2.40
\nSubtitles: <\/strong>English SDH
\nDisc Size: <\/strong>NA
\nCodec: <\/strong>MPEG-4 AVC
\nRegion(s): <\/strong>A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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PLOT SUMMARY<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Jimi: All is by My Side<\/em><\/strong> covers a year in Jimi Hendrix\u2019s (ANDRE BENJAMIN) life from 1966-67 as an unknown backup guitarist playing New York\u2019s Cheetah Club is making his mark in London\u2019s music scene up until his Monterey Pop triumph, the film presents an intimate portrait of the sensitive young musician on the verge of becoming a rock legend.<\/p>\n

Quick Hit Review: <\/strong>This has widely been panned and for good reason: this just is not a very good biopic and this is coming from someone who isn\u2019t that big into music, although I have enjoyed many of Hendrix\u2019s songs not to mention his guitar play. However, the biggest issue, as reported during its production, is that the filmmakers, which includes writer\/director John Ridley (whose last feature film directing gig was 1997\u2019s Cold Around the Heart<\/em>), could not secure any of the legendary artist\u2019s songs which makes this film invalid before it even began and one of many reasons why it should\u2019ve been canned… Beyond that, though, Andre Benjamin, who isn\u2019t that bad in the role, is too old being nearly 40 playing an artists who was 27 when he died.<\/p>\n

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SPECIAL FEATURES \u2013 1.0\/5<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Music by Waddy, Lyrics by Danny (4:19; HD)<\/span><\/strong> is a short featurette on the generic music and songs featured in the film.<\/p>\n

Theatrical Trailer (1:39; HD)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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VIDEO \u2013 3.5\/5<\/strong><\/h2>\n

XLrator Media releases Jimi: All is by My Side<\/em><\/strong> onto Blu-ray presented with a 2.40 widescreen aspect ratio and for the most part it\u2019s an adequate transfer but far from perfect. Some scenes appear to have been shot far too soft while colors are all over the place I suppose in keeping with the 1960s era and style.<\/p>\n

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AUDIO \u2013 3.75\/5<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track offered up is decent where dialogue levels are mostly clear yet excels when the music is played which provides good depth to an otherwise OK lossless track…<\/p>\n

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OVERALL \u2013 2.0\/5<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Overall, Jimi: All is By My Side<\/em><\/strong> might\u2019ve had the best of intentions and despite an admirable performance from Andre Benjamin, who was clearly 10 years too old to play Hendrix, this was a misfire that began when the Hendrix estate wouldn\u2019t allow the use of his music which right there should\u2019ve cancelled the project.<\/p>\n

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Published: <\/strong>01\/14\/2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jimi: All is By My Side might\u2019ve had the best of intentions and despite an admirable performance from Andre Benjamin, who was clearly 10 years too old to play Hendrix, this was a misfire that began when the Hendrix estate wouldn\u2019t allow the use of his music which right there should\u2019ve cancelled the project.   … Continue reading “Jimi: All Is By My Side Blu-ray Review”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,970],"tags":[3446,1137,1100,3445],"class_list":["post-8764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blurayreviews","category-quick-hit-reviews","tag-andre-benjamin","tag-hayley-atwell","tag-imogen-poots","tag-jimi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8764"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28400,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764\/revisions\/28400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}