Trust the Pink Floyd mainstay to attempt something ambitious with his shot at one-night-only event cinema. This document of Waters’s 2010-13 solo tour, co-directed by Sean Evans, cuts its primo stadium spectacle with footage of the musician pottering around northern European battlefields, suggesting some History Channel remake of the fictionalised Nick Cave doc 20,000 Days on Earth. Amid the concert’s logistical shock and awe – elaborate light show, replica Stukas et al – one spies hints of naff: from synchro-clapping schoolkids for Another Brick to Waters duetting with his younger self. Yet The Wall’s themes – fear of state and bomb alike – continue to resonate, and their off-kilter framing here further reveals the extent to which Waters’ generation was shaped by conflict. If it risks, at two-plus-hours, leaving bums uncomfortably numb, such indulgence will presumably be no issue for prog lovers; for anyone else, it is a concert movie where the considerable pyrotechnics gathered never quite obscure the fully functioning conscience centre stage.
• This article was amended on 24 September 2015 to correct the name of Nick Cave, from Nick Dave as an earlier version said.
