The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel

Centered primarily on original Chili Pepper Hillel Slovak, this rock doc still follows the tried-and-true formula of the rise and fall and rise of a band, as the band members destroy their lives with drugs. Bassist Flea comes off as the most meepy and sincere in his telling, while Anthony Kiedis reads as distant and guarded. Filmmaking is on par, as documentarians do what they can with limited amounts of archival footage and photos. There were certainly things I didn’t know about the band, so that’s a plus. But I didn’t find this very moving.