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...seems unlikely that the power and artfulness of the Freejack script would have been enough to draw a success-seeking Jagger back into the world of movies. And we all know you can't always get what you want. So why has Mick come back after around 20 years away from the silver screen...
...Jagger starred in two 1970 movies, Performance and Ned Kelly. The former told of the relationship between a London gangster/extortionist (James Fox) and his landlord (Jagger). Ned Kelly was apparently more of a star vehicle for Jagger, who commanded the role of the title character, a courageous, steelhearted Irish rebel farmer...
Interestingly, the one characteristic linking these two Jagger films is a bizarre kind of violence. New York Times film critic Roger Greenspun noted this similarity when he described an "initial voluptuous sadism" in Performance...
...what about Jagger as an actor? Greenspun wrote...
...Mick Jagger, with luxurious black hair and full red lips that suggest an androgynous preRaphaelite beauty, has less to do [than Fox], but he projects a presence of considerable mystery." A.H. Weiler, on the other hand, was less glowing about Jagger's perfomance in Ned Kelly...