We’re going to start at the very end of the unfortunately tone-deaf music biopic “Spinning Gold,” because it is something else. Jeremy Jordan as the late and influential maverick record executive Neil Bogart looks straight into the camera and says, “I died …,” and a moment later, we’re plunged into an Afterlife Musical Number in which Bogart joins Tayla Parx’s Donna Summer for a Broadway-esque rendition of “Last Dance,” after which Jordan as Bogart sings an original tune called “Greatest Time,” while we see clips from the movie we’ve just experienced interspersed with shots of actors playing Bill Withers, Gladys Knight and members of KISS (in full makeup) joining Jordan as Bogart for the extended finale.
It’s like a strange and misguided takeoff on “All That Jazz” as funneled through “Rock of Ages,” and while there’s no denying the heart and effort behind the presentation, that finale is representative of the movie itself in that it has an uncanny way of hitting the wrong notes.
