Wahlberg brings his good-natured playfulness to Rock Star, instilling some charisma and energy into a routine show-business movie.
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09/17/01
Rock Star (2001)
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Reviews Counted:119
Fresh:62
Rotten:57
Average Rating:5.4/10
Consensus: Like its title, Rock Star is rather generic, being not so much about the heavy metal scene than about rock cliches and formula.
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Mark Wahlberg plays Chris Cole, a local guy from Pittsburgh who is a copy-machine repairman by day (still living at home), and the lead singer of Blood Pollution, a Steel Dragon tribute band, at... [More]
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Jennifer Aniston, Dominic West, Timothy Spall
Director: Stephen Herek
Reviews for Rock Star
Sex with Jennifer Aniston, or sex with hundreds of underage, wild, horny groupies? Hmmm ... now there's a tough decision I wouldn't mind making.
09/16/01
A minor pleasure, with a strong first half, a tepid second half and a hell of a performance from Mark Wahlberg.
09/14/01
Rock Star is a good idea for a movie, and is well executed with solid acting, music and production values.
09/11/01
It has a comical sense of history and seems perfectly aware that it is recounting a myth.
09/11/01
Herek's direction is flat and doggedly unexceptional; he gets the job done, but barely.
09/10/01
A fun, uplifting, well-paced movie with a solid central showing by Wahlberg and energetic live performances
09/10/01
If you've seen VH1 Behind the Music, you've already seen this movie - a hundred times.
09/10/01
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.
09/10/01
Top CriticBecomes another tired cautionary tale of sex, drugs, and rock n' roll.
09/10/01
Basically 'Behind the Music' meets 'A Star is Born'...no less shamelessly perfervid than the one and even more mawkish and schmaltzy than the other.
09/08/01
Lazy casting mars an otherwise enjoyable parable.
09/08/01
Perhaps, the original screenplay called for a three-hour film ... a mini-epic like "Almost Famous"
09/08/01
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09/08/01
An affectionate romantic drama made by and for people in love with music.
09/07/01
An accomplished retread of an old-time story.
09/07/01
Generally plays itself out with the plodding, high-decibel predictability of a Steel Dragon ballad.
09/07/01
This may be the most innocuous R-rated movie ever made, a film that turns rock 'n' roll, circa the mid-1980s, into a Disneyland ride.
09/07/01
I am recommending Rock Star as I would recommend a comic book or light reading material -- enjoy it and forget it.
09/07/01
Even though it's weak in the final stages, Rock Star has more than enough sparkle to last you.
09/07/01
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