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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 53 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 17, 2012
- Originally Released: 2011
- 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: 1.5/5 --
the story of what would charitably be called a wackadoo
Filmcritic.com
Rating: B- --
An amusingly fluffy musical biopic.
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IFC.com
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
The low-budget look of KILLING BONO suits the grubby sentiment of the film, and of its ultimate realization that glitz and glamour aren't available for everyone, no matter how enticing they look.
Movieline
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
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
The migraine of a story arc needed sharp comedy reflexes or, at least, a live-wire/slummy star turn and got neither.
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Village Voice
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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- UPC: 796019823876
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