A Look at the IMAX Concert Film U2 3D

The face of watching a concert film is forever changed with the film U2 3D in which we watch the iconic rock band's concert in Argentina in glorious digital 3D on the IMAX screen in which everything is so much larger than life. It's not enough that the film is presented in the larger than life IMAX format but the filmmakers want you to be IN THE MOVIE and the technological advancements of digital 3D have now made that possible. While watching Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen, Jr. you feel like you are one of the audience members as the performers step right off the screen and into your lap. It is an amazing experience to behold that takes the innovations of previous digital 3D films BEOWULF, HARRY POTTER 5, and THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS 3D, to a whole different level. Those films were beautifully presented but U2 3D is right in your face.

The4 cinematography is amazing as elements in the foreground, background, and mid-ground are separated amid the 3D elements creating a visual tour de force in which for the first time you feel like you can stand in between the audience and the band for an even closer experience with the band then even the original audience was able to get. Praise should also go to the production design as the two thrust stage performance areas put band members in the middle of the audience during certain songs enhancing the “up close and personal” aspect of the production and the 3D feel.

Not since viewing GRINDHOUSE on the big screen has going to the movies been such a jaw dropping experience. The band performs all their most popular songs and expands upon and enhances the concert experience that they brought to their 1988 concert film U2: RATTLE AND HUM. Although this film will have tough competition with the Hannah Montana concert film HANNAH MONTANA & MILEY CYRUS: BEST OF BOTH WORLDS CONCERT - DISNEY DIGITAL 3D (which at this time is the highest grossing concert film of all time), U2 3D like the band's previous concert film will be a bench mark in concert films that will be enjoyed for years to come.