Pretty Good

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

But if you're hoping to hear Andrea Coor sing, sorry. No such luck. I only broke down and watched this after all these years because I found out she's in it. I might be able to give this a 7 someday after I get over my disappointment. It has an OK story, some nice eye candy, some now familiar faces and some pretty good tunes. I'll probably be able to watch this again in 10 years or so.

I have to say, I started off watching The Commitments in a bad mood. I don't know why... maybe it's because of the really dumb comments my film teacher had made about it (he was showing to to the class). He said 'its a film everyone likes, just like Amelie'. It didn't help that I disliked Amelie... A LOT. So I had already started seeing this with low expectations, but it eventually grew on me, and I gave into its charm. The wonderful, BRILLIANT music had me falling for it, and the realism it had while they played. I wouldn't say this film is incredible, but the music made it work completely. I just hope my film teacher stops saying dumb comments about how 'everyone' loves it. Now, where can I get the soundtrack?

At the time when it came out it was the story not so far away of the attempt to import soul music into Ireland and make Ireland the Soul of Europe, I mean the Negro of Europe singing soul music to the proletarians. Today it has aged and it has become some kind of a rather nostalgic recollection of what things were back then when Ireland was not yet in anyway the Celtic Tiger it has become in the meantime.But the film has kept some depth about life and young people. For one young people, and in this case the main front musicians and vocalists, cannot succeed if they do not find some older more experienced people to help them find a vision, a path, an inspiration that makes them encounter the superior layers of their souls.The second lesson is that no one can go anywhere if they don't have a clear vision of what they want to do and where they want to go. They may be confused, not clear enough, follow the wrong star and change stars and directions several times before finding they way, but if they are inspired along the way they will find the path that leads to their realizing the deepest desires of theirs.But the film is sad because in the end it is the story of a failure since the group that is being built meets with success and as soon as they meet with that local success they become aggressive, violent to one another as if each one of them wanted to be the main star, as if the Milky Way only had one star. It is even painful to see how they come close to something and then reject it for plain selfish reasons.The last words of the older trumpet player do not make up for that failure? Each one of them has been lifted to a higher level of consciousness and will go on looking for a way to realize that expectation of theirs? That might be true for one, or two out of the whole lot but the others only step back into banal humdrum routine because they have learned very little from the experience that will remain for them a sorry experiment.

This film is about a bunch of deprived people in a slum area forming a band. They hope to make it big with their soul music.I find "The Commitments" tedious and boring. The characters engage in endless tirade, shouting profanities at each other constantly. The way they treat each other is simply sad. The clothes they wear are all dismally coloured. Furthermore, the film is set in a deprived area, meaning unattractive sets and locations. All these things make the film unattractive to me. It is made worse by the poor lighting. Many scenes are poorly lit. A scene featuring the tour bus going down the road is a prime example. The cameraman obviously focused on the sky, making the road, houses and the bus very dark."The Commitments" sounds like an uplifting film with heart and soul. But I was wrong. It is dismal, hostile and unlikable.