If you took a swig of the hard stuff each time someone mentioned how cool Steve McQueen was in this documentary. Your liver would give up by the time this documentary finished.
Produced in conjunction with the McQueen family. This was a hagiography. Steve McQueen was cool, he loved racing. His son Chad mentioned the drug taking, no one mentioned his bad temper and the wife bashing although his first wife came close. Not cool.
You have McQueen's grandchildren telling the viewer how wonderful he was. They were all born after he died. They never met their grandfather and this was only alluded to at the end of the documentary.
McQueen was a star, he made some great films. I remember being shocked as a kid when he died. I thought guys like Steve McQueen do not die at the age of 50.
I thought this would be an examination of McQueen and his movies. Norman Jewison had directed him. Robert Vaughn had appeared with him in several films and they contribute here. Actors such as Gary Oldman and Pierce Brosnan are fans.
McQueen states in an interview that he injected his own characteristics in his film roles. The rebel, the lone wolf, the racer. That does not make him a great actor. It is telling that only when he appeared with Dustin Hoffman in Papillon, he made an actual effort to act.
This documentary was just an overview of his life and movies. There was little here that was new and seen elsewhere. It was also too fawning.
Produced in conjunction with the McQueen family. This was a hagiography. Steve McQueen was cool, he loved racing. His son Chad mentioned the drug taking, no one mentioned his bad temper and the wife bashing although his first wife came close. Not cool.
You have McQueen's grandchildren telling the viewer how wonderful he was. They were all born after he died. They never met their grandfather and this was only alluded to at the end of the documentary.
McQueen was a star, he made some great films. I remember being shocked as a kid when he died. I thought guys like Steve McQueen do not die at the age of 50.
I thought this would be an examination of McQueen and his movies. Norman Jewison had directed him. Robert Vaughn had appeared with him in several films and they contribute here. Actors such as Gary Oldman and Pierce Brosnan are fans.
McQueen states in an interview that he injected his own characteristics in his film roles. The rebel, the lone wolf, the racer. That does not make him a great actor. It is telling that only when he appeared with Dustin Hoffman in Papillon, he made an actual effort to act.
This documentary was just an overview of his life and movies. There was little here that was new and seen elsewhere. It was also too fawning.