By
Chris Tookey
Last updated at 8:29 AM on 1st April 2011
Verdict: Dreary account of musical no-hopers
Rating: 
Killing Bono is the sad story of two talentless would-be rock stars who resented the success of some former schoolmates in a band called U2.
Ben Barnes and Robert Sheehan are good-looking guys, but they can’t begin to make these characters likeable.
Unforgettable Ire: Robert Sheehan as Ivan McCormick and Ben Barnes as Neil McCormick in Killing Bono
Though Nick Hamm directs with zest, the script by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, adapting rock critic Neil McCormick’s autobiography, is low on laughs.
The little merriment it does engender emanates from Peter Serafinowicz as an Old Etonian music executive and the late Pete Postlethwaite, in his last screen role, as a landlord who comes across as Kenneth Williams’s even camper brother.
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