Excellent Movie

Rating: 8/10 (17 February 2019)

Strong points: The MUSIC! Excellent production and performance of the music. I don't think it could have been done any better and am glad Lady Gaga was the female vocalist for this. The acting was also excellent, which is surprising considering Lady Gaga has spent a career making music, so another WELL DONE!
Weak point: The pacing. Mind you, I rated this movie 8/10, so I didn't see it as a failure, but the pacing is uneven. The beginning meet between the couple is done well, but takes some time, and to be able to maintain putting that much into different parts of the couple's relationship would have turned the movie into a 2.5 hour production, which I would have liked better, but I don't mind long movies when done well. What happens is some of the dialog that comes out doesn't seem like there's much backstory for it. So towards the end, the movie gives a snippet of a timestamp in the relationship, then another, then another, and is too rushed. I would have liked those snippets to be a little longer so it didn't feel kind of choppy at the end. It was a good enough storyline to add the additional 15 minutes.