The transparent state-of-the-art 3-D look of a colorful U2 concert at a coliseum in Buenos Aries, Argentina is extraordinary.
It easily makes up for the rock band’s lyrically simplistic agitprop songs.
U2’s highly polished presentational performance is captured for its spectacle by co-director Catherine Owens, whose artistic influence stretches to the design of the massive multi-media walls that flash out images and words behind the band.
U2 fans will have much to love, and less enthusiastic audiences will nevertheless marvel at the sheer visual achievement of 3-D technology that is already outdated.
That is, if they don’t ignore the movie completely out of disgust at Bono’s silliness.
Rated G. 85 mins.
