I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Load of rubbish!!

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

'Backbeat' purports to be about the early days of The Beatles and how almost overnight four struggling musicians playing the clubs of Hamburg in the early sixties suddenly found themselves the most popular rock and roll band in the world. That would be fine if that were indeed the story that the movie wanted to tell.Instead 'Backbeat' puts George, Paul, Ringo and Pete Best (the band's first drummer) in minor supporting roles in order to tell the story of Stuart Sutcliff (Stephen Dorff) who's only footnote in history is that he died just shortly before the band took the world by storm.Sutcliff isn't interested in music and that's just as well because we aren't really much interested in him. The other members of the band aren't too crazy about Sutcliff. He was briefly in the band and was a friend of John Lennon and the movie flirts with the idea that they may have been in love with Stuart's girlfriend and with Stuart.The film's sole merit is the brilliant, almost eerie performance of Ian Hart as the young John Lennon. His face, his voice and his mannerisms are dead on. He has played Lennon before in a movie called 'The Hours and Times' which speculated on his affair with Brian Epstein while on holiday in Spain in 1963.The problem is that the movie never tells us what it finds so fascinating about Sutcliff. How different would the success of The Beatles have been without his contribution? Basically if you take him out of this story you don't have much left. It would simply be a dull movie about a guy living in England during the 60s who paints, has a girlfriend and dies of a hemorrhage at a very young age.How did The Beatles hit it big? When did they realize that they had made it? What happened to Pete Best? How did the foursome originally get together? How did they get along initially? The answers aren't to be found here.

I have never been a real big fan of the Beatles, & know very little about there music or themselves,I do know films & also know that very rarely do they ever tell the truth about any performing artist.This is a film about before the time these late teen-agers became the Beatles, & about Stuart Sutcliffe (he co-founded the group with John Lennon), Stuarts story is sad BUT the music is first rate.The acting by Stephen Dorff & Ian Hart as Sutcliffe & Lennon are first rate, More than likely inaccurate, BUT this is a movie. Sheryl Lee is quite good as Stu's love interest.I thoroughly enjoyed this movie I just may have to "googleize' the truth, from Google, & we all know they are not the most accurate source. This is from 1994 & I am finally seeing it. I am glad I did.Ratings ***1/2 (Out of 4) 93 points (out of 100) IMDb 9 (out of 10)

This is an excellent depiction of the Beatles ' Hamburg days .But the movie real heroes are actually Sutcliffe,Lennon and Astrid.The movie was made some years after Goldman's infamous book and there are hints at an homosexual relation between John and Stu ("you're jealous of me!"Astrid would have said to John!) but the director does not insist and he finally depicts a true friendship.He pits Stu's down-to-earth world against Astrid's chic elitist intellectual one : they go to the pictures to see Melville's "Les enfants terribles" (actually a Cocteau story),and she seems to be very fond of the French culture:Cocteau,Sartre ,Edith Piaf ,Rimbaud,;and she was ahead of her time since fifteen years later,rock singer Patti Smith had the same idols.The scenarists also sketch a parallel between the Klaus Voorman/Astrid relationship and "les enfants terribles" Ian Hart is an excellent John Lennon,in turn cynical,violent,delicate,nasty,hateful;Gary Bakewell resembles Paul,but he is not given a single moment to shine ;as for Georges ,he is completely insignificant.The music is very exciting .Even when Stu (Dorff) sings his ditty in a gleeful croak ,it's rock and roll ! At the end of the movie,the dialog begins to ring false.Everybody acts as if the Beatles were to become huge ;at the time ,who could have predicted such a career?It's a rebuilding of history a posteriori.And if the final lines about Astrid,Stu and Klaus are useful,those about the Beatles are overkill:everybody knows that they were the biggest group of all time.A must for Beatles' fans anyway.

The film is a marvel. The only evidence of post-fame Beatles nostalgia that doesn't seek to cash-out. It is no less than a kick-ass rock n' roll film, with deft photography, powerful direction and an incredibly hard garage soundtrack. Recommended for fans of garage raunch and pre-invasion british blues.