Very well executed

One of the best films i have seen

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

If you are looking for historically correct, look elsewhere. Passionate, heart breaking, and beautiful. A great foreshadowing of how amazing Gary Oldman is. Chloe Webb- such an underrated actress. These two perfectly embody the Sid and Nancy we "knew." It's a great film to watch for style inspiration as well- fashion, art, music. Just beware the romanticizing of such a dangerous lifestyle... it seems so fabulous from outside the box. Nothing better than a tragic love story....

Watching 'Sid and Nancy' as somebody who has seen her fair share of great biopics and being a huge admirer of Gary Oldman, to me it didn't disappoint at all. High expectations were very much met and exceeded.There is not much that is wrong with 'Sid and Nancy'. It does lag in pace a little in the middle, and it is around this point of the point where there is a bit of repetitiveness. Outside of those not too major flaws, 'Sid and Nancy' has so many strengths and is very much a very good film. It is unflinching, uncompromising and at times depressing, but it's a riveting watch.Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb are absolutely outstanding in the lead roles, especially Oldman who gives one of his best performances from personal opinion here. Courtney Love is also in this film before she rose to fame and, despite auditioning for Nancy, makes a strong impression as Gretchen. The characters are pretty vile at times but there is enough to make one feel sympathy for them.'Sid and Nancy' is atmospherically filmed and there is a real sense of authenticity to the costumes and setting. Likewise with the booming and pretty unforgettable soundtrack.Also successful is Alan Cox's direction, he directs with a very keen eye for the era and the absurdities that came with it. The script is unflinching and thought-provoking.Lastly the story brilliantly mixes gritty realism, charming and moving romantic elements and delicious black humour.Overall, hugely impressive and recommended highly, though not everybody is going to like it. 8/10 Bethany Cox

This starts with the death of Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb) leaving Sid Vicious (Gary Oldman) catatonic as the police question him. The couple had met more than a year ago. Sid and Sex Pistols bandmate Johnny Rotten (Andrew Schofield) are on the streets doing minor vandalism. They find Nancy with another friend. She becomes a groupie. After a little time, they become a couple addicted to heroine. The band implodes during the disastrous US tour. Sid tries to go solo with Nancy managing but their desperate addiction leads to the eventual self-destruction.These are two amazing performances. Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb go into the gutter of the soul of these characters. It's raw and powerful. This is a Romeo and Juliet on heroine. I actually find Webb the wilder performance but the combination is undeniable.

I last saw this movie when it came out in the mid-1980s, and as a long-time aficionado of punk rock, one had to say that 'Sid and Nancy' was awful. Irredeemably awful. I saw it again just last night, and it was worse. Over the decades since Sid kicked Nancy's bucket and then his own, several documentaries, unearthed footage and books of reminiscences have strengthened our acquaintance with the 'punk rock' story and its myriad sub-plots. However, as the director and co-writer of 'Sid and Nancy', Alex Cox would have known the entire story back in the early 1980s. He just didn't want to film it. Instead we get a wildly inaccurate phantasmagoria starring two painfully overacting hams who look several years older than the historical characters they are meant to be portraying. The entire English punk scene is pulped down into a bunch of exaggeratedly lurching, moronic and pettily destructive idiots falling over repeatedly and making life difficult for themselves and others. What about the intelligence and originality of the Buzzcocks or the Banshees? What about the Clash's social conscience? What about the Sex Pistols' media-savvy and musical talent? Check 'The Punk Rock Movie'; Sid actually could play, albeit in a basic 'Dee Dee Ramone' manner, and if you'd like to listen to the live bootlegs, they bear little resemblance to the incompetent racket served up by the 'Sex Pistols' in 'S & N'. Moreover, couldn't Cox have staged the 'Pistols' English gigs with an audience who doesn't look like it was straight out of 1984? Check the half-mohawks and the 'positive punk' girls' puffed-up hair. Almost as bad as Spike Lee's 'Summer of Sam'. While we're at it, why are there no swastikas? So what if Alex Cox didn't want them in his precious movie; in 1976-77 they were right there in front of everybody. Again, check the footage. Sid Vicious made the swastika t-shirt an icon; he pretty much lived in one. You might as well try to do a bio-pic about the Grateful Dead and leave out the peace symbol. Look, as you can tell, I could easily spend 10,000 words telling you how insultingly bad, stupid and dishonest this movie is. Maybe one day I will, but suffice to say that with its focus on two of the most obnoxious, universally disliked and talent-free members of the 1970s punk movement it is a totally charm-free excursion into bio-pic territory. It is also intolerably bad history.