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Starring U2
Directed by Mark Pellington
If you don’t like U2 you won’t like U2 3D, for the film is nothing more than a concert experience, a glorified music video.
It opens moments before the world’s biggest rock band kicks off another scorching performance.
It closes with rapturous crowds revelling in the knowledge that they, and 50,000 of their closest friends, have experienced something unforgettable.
In-between, Bono and the boys do what they’ve done well for thirty years – mount a sing-a-long concert of original classics that have become a significant part of the zeitgeist.
3D technology has also come some way in the past thirty years, and is here used to its full potential. In this context it is no more a gimmick than surround-sound, becoming a natural extension of the concert expression.
Footage edited layer upon layer to create an ethereal, almost spiritual experience infuses the visual treatment with urgency and vitality that expands the band’s musical intensity.
U2 3D is unlike any screen concert you’ve seen before and dare I say it (cliché alert), is just like being there. So much so that you want to stand, sing, wave a cigarette lighter and throw bottles of water into the crowd.
Don’t be surprised when an usher asks you to resume your cinema seat.
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