Shane West does a pretty impressive impersonation of the on-stage antics of Darby Crash, the ill-fated lead singer of L.A. punk band the Germs who died of an intentional heroin overdose in 1980, one day before John Lennon's murder in New York City. Unfortunately, little else in this clunky, half-baked biopic rings very true.
Born Jan Paul Beahm in 1958 and raised in West L.A. by a woman of questionable mental stability, the future frontman of one of the most influential -- and notorious -- American punk bands formed the Germs as something of a joke. After catching The Damned during an early US tour, Beahm (West) and his best, friend Pat Ruthenberg (Rick Go...
Released:
2008
Rated:
R
Length:
92 mins