Rattle & Hum is a documterary of U2's 1987 tour of America.  Director Phil Joanou follows the band to New York, Texas, Memphis, San Francisco, Denver and Arizona.  The movie is shot in black and white for the most part until the end when a couple of concert sequences appear in color.  The sharp contrast is startling and gives the film an added power.  One of the more poignant scenes is the band's visit to Graceland and Sun Studios as the visit the cradle of rock 'n' roll.  For four guys from Dublin, Ireland this visit is like a visit to the Holy Land and it is treated with justifiable reverence.  While the interviews and look at the behind the scenes are nice, the meat of any rock film are the live performances and U2 does not disappoint.  Their performance of "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" with a Harlem choir in a church is uplifting.  The do a gut wrenching take on "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and haunting version of "With Or Without You".  They practically explode off the screen with the rampaging "Bullet The Blue Sky".  Rattle & Hum is a must for any U2 fan and now that fourteen years have past and the band has changed its image and look a couple of times, it is interesting to look at them in a simpler time.