If you're wondering what Mick Jagger gets up to when he's not prancing around the stage as a seventy-eight year old Rolling Stone I can tell you he's acting, and not very well, in "The Burnt Orange Heresy". It's based on the book by Charles Willeford and it's about a theft of sorts, here a canvas and it's carried out by a very devious art-critic, (the very unattractive Claes Bang), who is hired to 'steal' it by rich, reclusive Jagger from equally reclusive artist Donald Sutherland, (excellent). Needless to say, things don't go quite according to plan.
It's an interesting yarn that director Giuseppe Capotondi never develops, (he actually makes a thriller plot boring), though the beautiful and talented Elizabeth Debecki almost redeems it when she's on screen but ultimately this is a film with no meat on the bones and it just drifts along to its highly unsatisfying conclusion. Best just give it a miss.
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