I thought that the Commitments had featured in the west end recently and so I made a point of watching this film whilst it was available to me. I guess that I was expecting something like We Will Rock You but this was different.The music was soul and the story was all about this guy that creates a soul band in Dublin but in the end the disband because the lead singer gets offered a record deal, the trumpeter is a liar and has slept with all the back up singers and they all felt betrayed and let down by the trumpeter, to add to most of them hating the lead singer. If you are someone that likes soul music then it is a film worth watching but if you have no interest in soul music then it is not worth watching in any way.
The plot is good enough but not enough to work without the music. You can tell the really strong shows from the others because it wouldn't matter what music was being played, the story would still be good and this film kinda really needed the soul music. I know that it was all about soul music but if you took that away and made it just about a band in Dublin trying to get somewhere and then failing it just wouldn't be as good. There was no comedy in the film so it needed the musical aspect to it. Putting all that aside I really enjoyed it. As a multi-instrumentalist musician that likes every genre of music it inspired me to go back to my saxophone and try and mash up genres to create something that inspired me. Going back to the old stuff is sometimes the best way of finding inspiration.
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