As far as the genre of musical biopics is concerned, the newest addition to the cannon – Kneecap – is a welcome and entertaining look at an unlikely trio of men who form an Irish hip hop act.

After Belfast schoolteacher JJ (DJ Próvai) gets it into his head that two boys from the neighborhood – Naoise (Móglaí Bap) and Liam Óg (Mo Chara) – might have the chops to make it as a hip hop act, he offers to produce a few tracks for them. Along the way, he become as integral to the group – newly christened Kneecap – as are Naoise and Liam Óg. The act quickly becomes the unlikely mouthpiece of the Civil Rights movement currently engaged in preserving the Irish language from absorption into English. Like any other original defiant voice, the group is looked upon as a menace to law and order, but the band remains steadfast in their message...