Review: 'Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving The Police' An Unsatisfying Look At The Legendary Group

"When I wrote the book, initially it was 800 pages — a bit long. I had to chop it, chop it, chop it, get it to 350. I cut away a lot of stuff that didn't need to be there. I left out certain uncomfortable things," The Police guitarist Andy Summers told Indiewire in 2012 about his memoir, "One Train Later," which serves at the basis for "Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving The Police." "Some of these rock books — they grovel in it. Like Keith Richards' book, which I found awful, personally. It's like, 'We're going to read about thirty years of heroin abuse?' It's just so fucking boring to me. I don't really want to hear about it. If I wanted to read that, I'd read William S. Burroughs." While I can't speak for the book, when it comes to the documentary, that kind of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll grit would've been a welcome addition to what is an otherwise dull, sometimes navel-gazing look at one of the great bands of...