Review – Rock Star

The story had potential. Indeed, the tale of a heavy metal fan suddenly tagged to replace the lead singer of his favorite band – a plot loosely based on part of the real-life history of Judas Priest – seemed almost tailor-made for a Hollywood adaptation. Sadly, the script fails its own story. All the classic elements are there: the wide-eyed hero, the adoring girlfriend, the corruption of the music industry, and so on. But the characters are so badly written that they just don’t work. For example, the relationship between protagonist and love interest is so poorly established early on that it turns out to be somewhat less than poignant when the boy-loses-girl moment hits in act two. Perhaps if they’d played it for laughs a bit more they might have gotten away with it. As it was, however, in the end it came close but didn’t quite pull it off. See if desperate