Shocked by how great this film was

Rating: 7/10 (22 October 2015)

I picked this up yesterday on sale as I never heard of it before and since I love music I said to myself I might as well see what its about. The film which was originally called Can A Song Save Your Life before it was changed to Begin Again sees a down on his luck drunk named Dan played by Mark Ruffalo from 13 Going On 30)who's marriage is on the rocks and his daughter played by Hailee Steinfield dresses inappropriately for her age.Of course Dan ends up being sacked from his job as a music producer and one night stumbles on an open mic session where he hears a young woman singing. Turns out that this young woman is Gretta (played by Kiera Knightly from Pirates Of The Caribbean)who's friend Steve(played by James Corden from Into The Woods)suggested Gretta to sing live causing her to get noticed by Dan. So Dan takes Gretta under his wing and decides to make her into a star by making music videos and everything for her to make it to the top again. Of course Gretta stopped singing for a long time having split up with her partner Dave Grohl(played by Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine in his film debut)as she was a singer/songwriter too just like Dave(as we see this in a flashback)and she decides to make it big again.
Overall this film is a must see for music lovers,the acting was very good,Mark Ruffalo was terrific as the drunken washed up disgraced music producer who swears quite a lot,Kiera Knightly was very good as Gretta(more on Knightly in a minute)and the rest of the film was very good. The singing by Kiera Knightly I must say is brilliant,who knew that she had a beautiful singing voice and she plays the guitar very well too. I was shocked by how good she was in this movie. Between Kiera and Zachary Levi(who shocked me in Tangled when he sung in that film, as well as the likes of Hugh Jackman,James Marsden etc all these guys should seriously just release an album as they all have fantastic singing voices).
Bottom line I really enjoyed it and if you haven't seen it yet then please do.
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