Charlie Sheen's “My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat Is Not an Option” live performance tour kicked off Saturday night in Detroit and fans and critics agree that the show was bad, bad, bad. New York Times critic A.O. Scott described the scene inside the Fox Theater as "...ugly, as a boisterous, liquored-up capacity crowd greeted Mr. Sheen with cheers that quickly turned to boos. The show — a ragged mix of video clips, ear-splitting music, profanity-laced monologues and clumsy attempts to encourage audience participation — did not so much end as collapse."

Scott goes on to say "The problem was that Mr. Sheen did not really have any material, and certainly nothing new. After a loud montage of movie clips — mostly violent snippets from films starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and other actors ... he delivered a kind of mock State of the Union address that sent the evening tumbling irretrievably toward disaster... the evening clearly had not gone according to plan. If there ever was a plan." Scott's review offers some interesting insights, like the following "You could say that Mr. Sheen and the audience failed each other.

The ticket buyers did not show him the “love and gratitude” to which he felt entitled, and he did not give them the kind of entertainment they thought they had paid for. But you could also say that the performer and the audience deserved each other, and that their mutual contempt was its own kind of bond."

You can read the entire review here.

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