As a long term Rush fan, I was looking forward to watching this.
After finishing it, I wasn't particularly satisfied, but I am honestly not sure what the filmmakers could have done - as the group themselves admit (slightly tongue in cheek of course), they are 'boring'.
And this is true - and this is not at all meant as a critique of the band, they simply do not have the typical rock and roll craziness in their history. They worked hard, didn't do anything particularly crazy, but made some really great music.
Perhaps Rush simply are not a good candidate for a documentary film. I suppose what might have been more interesting for me is to delve deeper into some of their songs. After they hit it big with Moving Pictures, their subsequent albums are really quickly mentioned, basically just the synthesizers or no synthesizers argument, and that's about it.
There are so many great songs in that time period (mid 80s to today), would have been interesting to hear thoughts from the band on songs like 'The Pass' or 'Dreamline' or...
Not everyone 'gets' Rush, and I am not sure if this film helps explain to someone who doesn't really know the band what makes them so special.
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