he Sex Pistols lasted for three years, and it’s fair to say that a lot happened to them in that brief, blinding flash of late 1970s chaos. Strange, then, that Pistol ends up feeling too fast and too loose.directs this frenetic yet baggy six-part dramatisation of the Sex Pistols story, largely told through the eyes of guitarist Steve Jones. It is adapted by Baz Luhrmann favourite Craig Pearce, from Jones’s memoir, Lonely Boy, which explains the Jones-heavy perspective.
It takes an episode to introduce Rotten, and when he does turn up, it’s with a flourish. The camera stalks up the stairs to his bedsit, hovers at his feet and eventually whips up to meet thatstare. Anson Boon plays him with conviction, a snotty cross between the Artful Dodger, the Child Catcher and an animated rodent. Lydon has been against Pistol since its inception, with his old bandmates taking him to court to argue that they were entitled to use the band’s music in it. They won.
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