Set in the 80’s, Rock Star is based on Tim “Ripper” Owens, who initially was in a Judas Priest cover band. He then left to join the real Judas Priest. Here the band is named Steel Dragon. Movie stars, Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston, well quite an unusual pair, but it pretty much works it. There’s nothing so appealing and great about this movie, except for Rock, naked girls anddrugs. The usual underdog story, Rise and Fall.
You get a hint of the plot just by reading the tag-lines,
Every guy wants to be you. Every girl wants to be with you.
The story of a wanna be who got to be.
Dream big. Live the life.
Rock based movies don’t hit screens that often, so you will find only a hand full good ones (not including Biographies like Gimme Shelter, The Doors or Iron Maiden: Flight 666). The only good ones that I can remember at the moment are The School of Rock and Almost Famous [Do let me know if you know any].
Coming back to Rock Star, well it’s an average movie, with some cool Rock Concerts of that era. If you’ve been a fan of Van Halen, Judas Priest, KISS.. then you might like this one. No exceptional acting skills display, despite Mark being one of the finest actors.
Rating: 2.5/5
Year: 2001
Torrent: http://www.mininova.org/tor/817165
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