I hated this movie so much, I would have walked out if I wasn't with a date who paid for it. I love Van Morrison but the music didn't match this shallow, boring souless piece of work. I've been to Belfast, and this film does such a disservice to it's rich complicated history. The characters are flat, you never care about any of them. The humour is made for old people. The director threw in bits of Americanized culture to help sell it, I guess. It felt so inauthentic, I can't believe it won all those awards! I'll never listen to the Academy again.