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Loosely inspired by the true story of the heavy metal band Judas Priest. Lead singer of a tribute band becomes lead singer of the real band he idolizes.
Just as it should be falling apart, its melodrama becomes more touching than ever, ultimately shaping a film about much more than any band and more poetic than any song on the radio.
A movie about the gullible and pitched to the naive, Rock Star struggles to resist being as generic as its title, but is never more than just another replay of the hoary postulate that showbiz is all about rising, falling and being redeemed.
September 10, 2001
Empire Magazine
The first half is hilarious but the second gives itself more to cautionary moralising and life lessons.