
This film documents the 1987 North American tour of the great rock band U2. Fresh with their success of their best selling album "The Joshua Tree", the band plays monster gigs. Along the way, the band takes the opportunity to indulge in some special musical activities like playing with B.B. King and performing "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking" with a famous church choir. All the while, concert footage of the band's biggest hits on tour are featured while Bono speaks hi... (Full plot summary below)
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This film documents the 1987 North American tour of the great rock band U2. Fresh with their success of their best selling album "The Joshua Tree", the band plays monster gigs. Along the way, the band takes the opportunity to indulge in some special musical activities like playing with B.B. King and performing "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking" with a famous church choir. All the while, concert footage of the band's biggest hits on tour are featured while Bono speaks his mind on the problems of his homeland.
Leave your thoughts about U2: Rattle and Hum.
| United Press InternationalJohn SwensonWith some hard-hearted editing this might have ended up being one of the finest concert films ever, but as a feature film Rattle and Hum ends up a failure. |
| Nitrate OnlineDan LybargerNicely shot if not terribly innovative concert film. |
| User ReviewLee SOpening day in Boston, crowd stood and sang all the songs until the credits were over. It was better than half the live concerts I've been to :) |
| User ReviewVenkat S5 starts for Sunday Bloody Sunday and Pride alone.... It's not like rest of the songs are not great... they are awesome too! |
| User ReviewDanny OWas not too well received when it came out in '89 but it is one of those films that grows on you over time. This was U2 at their most ambitious. |
| User ReviewAmbrosio RUp close and personal with the greatest rock band in the world. To hear them speak about what Sunday Bloody Sunday means to them is amazing. BB King telling Bono that he writes deep stuff for a kid. To see what they do behind the stage when they walk off stage before the encore is awesome. I've seen U2 in concert in Sept. 09 in Chicago and this film, in fact no film can do there shows justice. It is a religious experience to have 61,500 people singing Where The Streets Have No Name. In fact hearing the opening guitar thrashing through the speakers is enough to make a grown man cry. This movie is the closest depiction to the music they make. They didn't talk about their private lives, about girlfriends, they talked about inspirations like Larry Mullen Jr.'s love of Elvis. Visiting Graceland, the best interview moment is when Larry Mullen Jr. is sitting in his kitchen trying not to cry thinking about Elvis's eternal flame. Fading from Black-N-White to Color when they enter the desert, Sun Devil Stadium. Loved It. Enjoy. |
| User ReviewAndre TI love U2.Since the 80´s till now they still original and good!This movie(made for theaters) was filmed by the great director Phil Joanou in part in glorious black and white, and in the end, some shots in colour, like a revelation.Not only a documentary of a tour, this movie takes a snapshot of th Joshua Tree era.I |
| User Reviewiesha pWow, it is hard to believe that it has been 22 years since Rattle And Hum came out, I was a big U2 fan back then, but I never fully got to see this, until now, and I have to say, for a concert behind the scenes kind of movie, it is incredibly well done. The filming of U2 when they were in some of their best years, packing concerts and domes, yet still taking time to go to a small church in harlem to record with a gospel choir, which sounded awesome. Overall this is a great inside view into a band that was really developing and rounding out their sound. I will admit, I am not a fan of any of the new U2 stuff, not since Actung Baby, but for this period of the bands carreer, I still love them to this day, and Rattle and Hum just makes me want to revisit all those old albums and drive with the window down singing at the top of your lungs, and for that, it gets 5 stars. |
| User ReviewJennifer DThis is fabulous. Beautifully recorded. With or Without You and it's subtle amazing colors brings me to my knees every single time without fail. I love their commentary, love the renditions. I watch this on my iPod before bed quite often. Never fails to make me happy. |
| User ReviewJim FOf all the concert dvd/documentaries I've seen, this is the best. A standard for how concerts should be filmed. |