E4734

2/10

Interesting film.. to say the least. As a follow up to purple rain it does that incredibly poorly, barely linking to the original film outside of name. While a few faces return, including Morris Day, Jerome Benton and of course, Prince himself. The acting this time around is incredibly stale and poor. At points it does feel like your watching a schools drama production the acting is that bad. The sets are also terrible, gone are the long motorcycle rides throughout Minneapolis, and the wide shots outside the First Avenue club, the whole film is filmed on a terribly cheap looking soundstage (dont even bother with the bridge...) and it just gives the film an extremely cheap look. Music wise, I think its generally good. Songs like New Power Generation are hard hitting catchy and memorable and are generally placed well throughout the movie. A big highlight of the film is the Thieves in the Temple sequence. Prince is an extremely capivating performer and dancer and its no different in this film. Overall, if your a HUGE Prince fan, give it a watch because why not, its an interesting piece of music history and you'll probably enjoy the musi. if not, i wouldn't bother.