Unaccountably a VHS of this showed up in a skrunky little rental store in my hometown sometime in the 80s. I'm 99% sure I was the only person who ever rented it, but I did so a few times and IIRC I ended up buying it for 50p when they eventually got rid.
Dimly-remembered pros: mostly very good sountrack inc pleasingly atmospheric use of first-LP Feelies; it looks great-but-cheap; fairly convincingly punk rock feel about the whole thing: for all its un-glamour it felt impossibly glamorous to me
Dimly-remembered cons: R. Hell is terrible in this, he is not exactly a charismatic screen presence.
Somewhere in-between: the plot maybe a bit thin but I am not sure that necessarily hurts the film overall, you don't pick it up thinking it'll be a tightly-plotted punk thriller.
― Tim, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 15:33 (five years ago) link