Kimyager10
I admire this film. Kurt Cobain is my idol and I think he was murdered. This film contains many evidence about this investigation. It is like documentary and I never bored while I was watching. I think Tom Grant have done everything that he could. It is very special film and I advise this film to people who wonder Kurt Cobain's death. Rest In Peace Kurt Cobain. We miss you.
metaspheres
Ignore any negative reviews slamming this film as a "smear" against Courtney Love. Anyone who has ever had any interaction with Courtney Love will tell you that how she comes across in this film is how she is in real life. In fact, the dramatic sequences featuring Love (played brilliantly by the incredible Sarah Scott) are extremely restrained. Love's behavior and how she presents herself in private are far, far worse than how she comes across in this film. Regardless of what she is or is not guilty of, Courtney Love is not a good or decent person. There's a good reason why no one in the music industry wants to have anything to do with her and why she is so widely viewed as a disgusting and repulsive personality.While Courtney Love insisted on wasting their money on endless nights at the Peninsula, all Kurt wanted to do was the very opposite. The Peninsula Hotel epitomizes all that was and is wrong with Courtney Love. It is so ridiculously and absurdly expensive that your average billionaire won't bother staying there precisely because it is such a blatant ripoff. The kind of people who stay at a hotel like The Peninsula are not the kind of people who worked for or earned their own money legitimately, and that describes Courtney Love perfectly.Among L.A. private investigators, Tom Grant is not only one of the very best, he's also one of the very few who is both clean, competent and caring. He's not one of those hopelessly corrupt Anthony Pellicano types (upon whom the character of Roy Donovan on the eponymous Showtime series is based), so Grant's credibility is above reproach and this comes across very well in his personality and how he approaches the case and tries to resolve everything fair and square.One of the best aspects of this documentary is its almost obsessive focus on the facts, rather than attempting to interjecting tabloid speculation or indulging this or that conspiracy theory. The case of Kurt Cobain's death isn't necessarily -- or even actually -- about a possible conspiracy, but rather about dozens upon dozens of inconsistencies surrounding the botched investigation of Cobain's alleged suicide, as well as all the lies, innuendo and obfuscation thrown into the mix by Courtney Love, Dylan Carlson, and other friends and associates of Kurt Cobain, as well as the lame sensationalism and incompetence of the media which just made everything even more confusing and convoluted.The film makes it abundantly clear that Kurt Cobain was a lone voice in the wilderness, surrounded by wolves and predators all out to get a piece of the action, with the guiltiest party in this context being his wife, Courtney Love.When you have the Chief of Police of the Seattle Police Department (1994-2000) during the original investigation admitting that the lead investigator was arrogant, corrupt and incompetent, and taking responsibility for how the Seattle PD botched and ruined the entire investigation, it's a bit rich for anyone to continue dumping on Tom Grant and claiming that he is a conspiracy theorist.You don't need an open mind to understand the veracity and legitimacy of this film. You just need enough intelligence to understand concrete facts, and how the Seattle Police Department, Courtney Love and the mainstream media completely and utterly disregarded those facts and promoted pure speculation and conjecture.The only conspiracy theorists you're going to encounter in this film are Courtney Love and the Seattle Police Department.
reddogues
If you watched Netflix making a murderer and were infuriated, you HAVE to watch this. This will make anyone question how on earth his death was ruled a suicide!!??? It certainly would not have been if this happened today. Years ago I watched Kurt and Courtney and questioned his death but this movie really hit the nail on the head. It is so upsetting to think he did not get the justice he deserved. Courtney really is a sociopath with probably some sort of personality disorder and she got away with millions of dollars and ended up a widow rather than divorced. Shameful that Kurt just wanted out of his marriage and music but someone put a stop to that getting out in the press and hen framed his suicide. I hope his daughter realizes he never killed himself.
Cynnik
Tom Grant has long said he has hundreds of hours of documentation that proves that Courtney had a hand in Kurt's murder. I was ready to have my mind blown. Not a single thing in this documentary affirmed his position. Courtney's behavior in the film is consistent with a drug addict, and he himself said she was high in all of those recordings. Listening to the audio, it really sounds like she believed he was alive. Tom Grant has made a name for himself based on these extreme assumptions and hunches. So many of these have been explained and debunked, especially the level of heroin in the bloodstream, but Grant refuses to acknowledge them. They say there is a lack of similar cases in law enforcement records, but do not acknowledge the medical studies.I was very disappointed in this film, but it laid my doubts of Courtney's statements to rest. IF anything, IF Kurt REALLY had help, the most logical thing that comes to me is that his friend may have assisted him in his suicide. That's a stretch though, and is solely based on this documentary. Nothing else has ever pointed me to think this.One thing that really irked me about the film, though, is that they have people "close" to Kurt that say he didn't seem depressed and they didn't think he was suicidal. Exactly. That is typical for a clinically depressed person. Adult suicides are usually shocking for that very reason.