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VERY Boring Film with Awful Adolescent Ranting Raps & Repulsive Racism against the British - Kneecap review by PV

Most of all this film is BORING. Not offensive as I do not care about such things. The sexual references and swearwords did not and do not impress or shock me. Ever.

I am disgusted and repulsed by the constant anti-British racism (and in law a nationality is a race). This is expressed directly and via absurd cartoon character BADDIE Brit police or protestants at least. See, KNEECAP are Catholic so hate Brits and want Northern Ireland which is majority Protestant to join the south in a 'United Ireland' which never existed until Brits arrived 800+ years ago and deposed the oppressive, feudal, slavetrading kings.

When Eire became independent after civil war in 1922, it in effect became a dictatorship of the Catholic church and pervy paedo priests. Great eh? These days, the Irish has had piles of EU cash (from UK money paid to EU) to boost their economy.

Can you imagine if a similar film was made celebrating a rap group who despised Catholics and the people of Southern Ireland? It would never happen. WHY NOT? Bias. It is somehow OK to spew racist abuse at 'white' Brits, and protestants in northern Ireland. WHY?

BUT as this is cloaked in 'minority language' status', this film INCREDIBLY got UK taxpayer funding to the tune of £150,000 from BFI plus Lottery Funding.

SO there are over 5 million people in Eire and nearly 2 million in Northern Ireland. Only 80,000 speak Irish/Gaelic, a tiny % as with Gaelic in Scotland. Only 6000 speak it in Northern Ireland. I conclude, therefore, that most now jumping on the ProPal Israel-hating Kneecap bangwagon cannot understand their ranting raps - or only the swearwords in English anyway, the F and the C word a lot. All the childish boasting about sex and drugs, it is like entering a 13 year old teenage boy brain...

This is not music, and it is now even good rap - it is C-rap. I can appreciate rap like Eminem, it is clever and uses melodic samples for the chorus. This Kneecap stuff is like teenagers writing in schoolbooks, basic rhymes, lots of swearing and lewd sex references to try and sound big. It doesn't. It is infantile and BORING more than anything else.

The film is silly, boring, a cartoon character caper with an absurd plot tacked on. How it got made is a mystery. I'd rather pay not to watch this again or listen to the awful c-rap, the non-music which people now listen to as Kneecap is Jewhating flavour of the month. Only one PalFlag shown here and no Jewhating. That is in later concerts - why one if on bail for terrorist offences as I write.

No stars.

In a similar vein to Human Traffic, but... - Kneecap review by TB

I watched this because they've been in the news recently...

Not bad, but didn't really grab me.. in a similar vein to Human Traffic (set in Northern Ireland).. but with politics, and not as funny...

It also probably doesn't help that I can't think of any rap music I like after about the mid-90s. So inevitably I wasn't a fan of the soundtrack; although to contradict that, rapping in Irish does actually have an appeal.