U2: Rattle and Hum (1988)
Paramount Pictures

Description

Rattle And Hum captures U2 – on and off the stage – during their triumphant Joshua Tree tour. From the giant Technicolor stadium celebrations to the black-and-white intensity of the indoor shows, this is U2 at their best. Follow the group across America, exploring new influences, playing with the legendary B.B. King, on a journey which takes them from Dublin to Graceland, from San Francisco to the streets of Harlem, from The Joshua Tree to Rattle and Hum.

Tags

Rock

Collected reviews and ratings

9.0 Amazon user reviews

If you love the music of U2, then just ignore the critics and buy this movie! Those narrow-minded critics simply didn't understand the premise of this film, or the band who inspired it!
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9.0 Variety

Visionary Irish rock band U2 has not sold itself short with U2 Rattle and Hum, a deeply felt cinematic treatment of band's music and concern infused with striking visual style and electric momentum.
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8.3 digitallyobsessed.com | Mark Zimmer

An inconsistent collection of performances from U2, with some odd stylistic decisions. But when the band is on, they're definitely on.
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8.0 DVD Verdict | Dean Roddey

If you are a fan of this music, it has more than a few goose pimple raising moments of absolute redemption. It requires that you get yourself into a bit more, because of the technical limitations of the subject matter; but, for fans, that shouldn't be too hard at all.
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6.0 Washington Post | Hal Hinson

For the most part, what "Rattle and Hum" manages to do is unspool hundreds and hundreds of feet of adoring film footage on the members of the band. And if you love looking at U2, then you're very likely to love this film.
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6.0 efilmcritic.com | Collin Souter

When put in context of their 25-year career, this documentary seems to focus on a different band altogether, a struggling band, not struggling for success, but for identity.
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4.0 DVD Town | Dean Winkelspecht

For a fan of the band, Rattle and Hum is a disappointment.
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2.0 DVD Talk | Brendan Surpless

Despite myself enjoying U2's music almost always finding everything they do to be the definition of quality, I couldn't really ever bring myself to enjoy Rattle and Hum. The documentary felt overly forced and never felt like a product that should be a U2 product.
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