Killing Bono (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 54 minutes
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 17, 2012
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Arc Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Ben Barnes, Robert Sheehan, Krysten Ritter & Pete Postlethwaite | |
| Performer: | Peter Serafinowicz, Stanley Townsend & Justine Waddell | |
| Directed by | Nick Hamm | |
| Director of Photography: | Kieran McGuigan |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 2/5 --
A shapeless rock-music caper that, like its deluded antihero, just doesn't know when to stop.
New York Times
Rating: 1.5/4 --
Killing Bono never really gets going, mostly because it has no real idea of how to convey joy, pain, or any type of emotional progression.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: C --
Don't expect any factual expose about the formative years of U2; this is more of a rock farce in which the band is sort of a plot device.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
While Barnes and Sheehan are persuasive as the squabbling siblings, the music-biz mockery is blunt and obvious.
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NPR
Rating: C- --
There's a difference between "funny" and "comedy," and the movie adaptation of Killing Bono tries way too hard to be nutty, at the expense of just getting across what McCormick knows.
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AV Club
Rating: 3/5 --
Hamm's movie is sparky and fun, and full of affectionate pokes at the '80s music scene. It's also, in terms of music biopics, probably better than the real thing.
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New York Daily News
Despite having plenty of guns, drugs and danger,[Killing Bono] isn't really all that dark.
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Film Threat
Product Description:
Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, co-screenwriters of the hit 1991 music drama THE COMMITMENTS, re-team to contribute to this musical comedy about two brothers who watch their dreams of superstardom go up in flames thanks to their classmate Bono and his band U2. Neil (Ben Barnes) and Ivan McCormick (Robert Sheehan) are two aspiring musicians with a passion for punk and the drive to become rock legends. They've got big ambitions, but Neil and Ivan have failed to realize that someone else in their social circle is even more determined to succeed than they are. His name is Bono (Martin McCann), and his band U2 is about to become one of the biggest rock-and-roll acts of all time. When Bono reveals to Neil that Ivan would make the perfect addition to U2, the intense jealousy that follows threatens to drive a wedge between the two brothers who once swore they would take over the world together.
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