Just watched 'I Swear' last night. ★★★★✩✩✩
Did a decent job of showing how massively fucking inconvenient living with Tourettes is, but focused far too much on the fact that John's parents are/were cunts and not nearly enough on the work he's done as a campaigner in later life.
Essentially just a dramatisation of the vastly superior documentary. Besides the last 20 or so minutes, the whole thing is essentially just a series of funny/sad skits about Tourettes
Maxine Peake's Scoatish accent is fucking disgraceful. Peter Mullen felt underused. Dot's cancer storyline felt utterly irrelevant in the context of the feature film and a lot of the other situations felt like they were shoehorned in just because they're things that happened.
Would have been a far better film if they had condensed his early life into the first half, got rid of the drugs/slut/crowbar/cancer bollocks and dedicated the whole second half to his campaigning.
Still, miles better than Dead Man's Wire. Couldn't even finish that steaming turd.
(, Fri 27 Feb 2026, 6:26, Reply)