His band finally gets a break to perform a major gig, but it winds up being on the same day the Pope comes to Dublin. Every time a big opportunity presents itself, something else gets in the way. Such is life for Neil McCormick (Ben Barnes, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian), a serial self-defeatist. Things are starting to fall into place for The Commitments a record deal is in the wings and Wilson Pickett’s supposed to join them on stage. There’s one key sequence in The Commitments that could be considered Killing Bono’s doppelganger. And both have screenplays co-written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. Both are stories of musicians struggling to escape the plight of life in lower-class urban Dublin. Both are about the allure and transformative power of being in a band in both case, the lead actors also perform the music. Both movies are based on a book (in the case of Killing Bono, the book originally carried the less scandalous title I Was Bono’s Doppelganger). Actually, the two movies have quite a bit in common. Killing Bono is reminiscent of The Commitments. A familiar shot of U2 with not-so-familiar faces
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