What can I say that hasn't already been said? This is, by far, the finest U2 concert DVD of all. The band is "home"...relaxed, in good humor. You get the feeling that, after taking the Elevation tour all over the world in all its huge glory, they're coming back home just to "play a few songs in the backyard for some close friends." Rough patches? Sure...but the clumsy start to "Angels of Harlem" has a basement-band friendly comraderie to it...not the awkward tenseness of the goofs in PopMart, for example.
U2 has put out some great concert DVDs...Elevation, Vertigo, ZooTV...but this...this is U2 at their finest. If you're on the fence about which to start with, this is the one. |