A poor movie.................................

Rating: 3/10 (5 January 2013)

The Commitments directed by Alan Parker...is one of those movies that..you want to like. When i watched it (recently) I knew after 15 minutes i could never ---enjoy this. This is a movie that tries hard to be...funny...indeed it is funny, but in such a contrived way there is no audience laughter. One can see the next "one liner"...from 12 paces. It is a film that is ..trying too hard to be authentic. And the audience can see all the "blood, sweat and tears"....that went into making this. To put it simply...this just does not work...like lots of movies it barely entertains. I will have forgotten this in about one week. Alan Parker movies tend to be predictable. Also there are very few surpises.