Killing Bono is an amusing, knockabout contribution to a sub-genre of rock movies about bands and rock stars that didn't quite reach the top or fell by the wayside, including the fictional The Commitments and Velvet Goldmine, the real-life Backbeat and the Canadian documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil. This cheerfully far-fetched rockumentary traces in flashback the parallel careers of two Dublin rockers, Neil McCormick (Ben Barnes) and his school chum, Paul Hewson, rather better known as Bono (Martin McCann). Everyone is aware of what happened to U2. Few, however, have heard of McCormick's group, Shook Up!, which got nowhere as, over the years, McCormick demonstrated a touching, self-destructive pride and an embarrassing ability to screw up his own life and that of his devoted younger brother. Bono emerges as generous, courteous and long?suffering. McCormick comes across as likable if a bit of a pain in the neck. He is currently a rock journalist for the Telegraph.
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