Review of 24 Hour Party People (2002) by Luke T — 30 Sep 2016

Steve Coogan stars in Michael Winterbottom's drama based on the life of Factory Records founder Tony Wilson and the Manchester music scene. Coogan suits the role of Wilson well as the news reporter looking for a big break and he gives a good performance in one of his most serious roles.

While his performance is good and the direction from Winterbottom is very solid throughout, I have to heavily criticize the screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce, because even though you can understand exactly what is going happen, there is absolutely no need to be as much bad language in the script as there was, because it can very offensive at times, at least on 6 occasions.

However despite this, it's one very good account of Wilson and you will hopefully learn something here. Despite that I knew what was going on, this is one film that I will not be viewing again.