http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/20/movies/review-cant-stand-losing-you-andy-s... The most exciting moment in Andy Grieve’s rather dull documentary, “Can’t Stand Losing You: Surviving the Police,” comes when we learn that Sting’s can of hair spray exploded in his face right before a 1978 television appearance. Had the actual detonation been recorded, it would have livened up a movie singularly lacking in rock-doc unpredictability and verve. Recounted in droning voice-over by the band’s guitarist, Andy Summers (working from his 2006 memoir, “One Train Later”), the Police’s stuttering attempts in the late 1970s to find a London audience and a signature sound — finally settling on a smooth fusion of jazz, pop and reggae — also suggest the artistic fissures that would do in the band. Yet the personal frictions that placed the Police on Rolling Stone’s list of the 10 Messiest Band Breakups are barely evident here. Neither Sting nor the drummer Stewart Copeland contributed to the film, and no former managers or crew are around to comment. Passing references to Sting’s “moody arrogance” and “dictatorship” drop into the film like appetizers for a meal we never get to eat. This is Mr. Summers’s show all the way: his memories (eating magic-mushroom omelets with John Belushi in Bali); his tour photographs (naked groupies draped enticingly across hotel-room furniture); and his face dominating footage of the band’s 2007-8 reunion tour. But as the movie plods repetitively from Britain to America, past to present, it’s his pre-Police career that begs for more than a flyover — the years in the 1960s when he cycled through magnificently protean bands like Eric Burdon and the Animals. The talented Lancashire lad who began life in a Gypsy wagon seems now, at 72, to be finally claiming the limelight for himself. CAN’T STAND LOSING YOU Surviving the Police