Liam Gallagher: As It Was

It's a good story - especially the focus on music as redeemer - but it does feel a bit too warm and fuzzy.

Finally amounts to a feature-length EPK.

With its release timed to coincide with this month's release of Gallagher's second solo album... the documentary can't help but feel like a promo piece despite providing some insightful backstage glimpses into its subject's well-publicized life.

The film mainly comes across as a self-aggrandizing promotional project that the famously arrogant pop star would have once sneered at.

Yawn.

An Oasis reunion could still happen, of course, but this isn't the film to convince Noel and the rest of the sceptics.

Liam Gallagher's impressive post-Beady Eye comeback is definitely worth celebrating, and this documentary film works...

This comeback documentary is also, in some ways, a poison pen letter to Noel...

It just feels a little empty and pointless, and while the concert footage brings with it some liveliness, not even a cameo from David Beckham can compel me to give Liam Gallagher: As It Was another watch.

It has moments that may remind you of This is Spinal Tap, but that's not necessarily a bad thing... Oasis fans will want to check out Liam Gallagher: As It Was...