The premise of the film is simply that an ill-matched group of 3 guys and a girl set up a band and that really is about it. But even within this simplicity which could have worked, there’s a paucity of believable characters with realistic relationships or any real sense of personal involvement as the writing is just so thin. So it becomes extremely hard to get invested in or even really care about the dilemmas the band finds themselves in and as that is all there is to the plot, the film is sunk from the outset.
It is decently well acted – Bew and Bonar are joined by Lyndsey Marshal and Mathew Baynton in the band as they battle through general disinterest from record labels and their own competing egos, but there’s never really enough at stake as the writing treats them so poorly. I’d struggle to recommend this at all to be honest.