Love the man's music, but this movie was awful in every way. The script was incoherent and the direction was inept. The sound quality was terrible and everyone made a big show of talking like they had gravel in their mouths. Don't see it. Listen to the music on your own time.

too many scenes of main character drunk

At more than two hours, Blaze is a meandering tale of genius and futility, tender, but overlong and wallowing, given that we know how it ends.

It’s a carefully crafted, almost reverential character study of man and music Hawke clearly and greatly admires.

Richard Roeper

Chicago Sun-Times

That Hawke so closely aligns his cinematic style, inventive as it is, with the story’s disorderly, scruffily offbeat characters and settings is both a strength and a liability. His kaleidoscopic, at times ghostly, approach proves a valiant if studied effort.

Gary Goldstein

Los Angeles Times