{"id":354843,"date":"2011-03-31T21:33:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T21:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/31\/killing-bono-is-low-on-laughs\/"},"modified":"2011-03-31T21:33:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T21:33:40","slug":"killing-bono-is-low-on-laughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/31\/killing-bono-is-low-on-laughs\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing Bono is low on laughs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"60.696107784431\">\n<!-- google_ad_section_start(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\nBy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=y&#038;authornamef=Chris+Tookey\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chris Tookey<\/a><br \/>Last updated at 10:33 PM on 31st March 2011<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>Verdict:<\/span> Dreary account of musical no-hopers<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<span><span><span title=\"Killing Bono is low on laughs\n\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span><span title=\"Chris Tookey\"><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span><span title=\"2011-03-31T22:32+0100\"><\/span><\/span><br \/>\nRating: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"rating\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/1d030b2fg_showbiz_1.gif.gif\" width=\"55\" height=\"9\" alt=\"1 Star Rating\" title=\"1 out of 5\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Barnes and Robert Sheehan are good-looking guys, but they can\u2019t begin to make these characters likeable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/c6b2fa7b797_468x343.jpg.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"343\" alt=\"Unforgettable Ire: Robert Sheehan as Ivan McCormick and Ben Barnes as Neil McCormick in Killing Bono\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unforgettable Ire: Robert Sheehan as Ivan McCormick and Ben Barnes as Neil McCormick in Killing Bono<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Though Nick Hamm directs with zest, the script by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, adapting rock critic Neil McCormick\u2019s autobiography, is low on laughs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0 Williams\u2019s even camper brother.<\/p>\n<p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/c6b2fa7b797_468x343.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/reviews\/article-1372124\/Killing-Bono-low-laughs.html?ITO=1490\" title=\"Killing Bono is low on laughs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Killing Bono is low on laughs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Chris Tookey Last updated at 10:33 PM on 31st March 2011 \u00a0 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\u2019t begin to make these characters likeable.\u00a0 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\u2019s autobiography, is low on laughs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-354843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Killing Bono is low on laughs - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/31\/killing-bono-is-low-on-laughs\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Killing Bono is low on laughs - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Chris Tookey Last updated at 10:33 PM on 31st March 2011 \u00a0 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. 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