“Room 37: The Mysterious Death Of Johnny Thunders” (*1/2 out of four) was a dreary melodrama which focuses on famed New York Dolls guitarist Johnny Thunders (Leo Ramsey) and his last days in New Orleans when he checked into a hotel to straighten his life out but then died under mysterious and still unresolved circumstances. Interesting at first but becomes so lurid, cerebral, and unpleasant after a while that it winds up trash. Ramsey looks a little like Thunders, and does what he can with a paper-thin script, but you can’t put your arms around a memory. 2014’s “Looking For Johnny” was a much more incisive look at Thunders and his life.

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