Another generation, same tale, not much more new.

Rating: 5/10 (9 June 2019)

I saw all the "A Star Is Born" before this one, and so if you saw any one of them, you know how it's gonna turn out. This one is no exception. What I liked about this one was seeing actors I haven't seen in film for a while. And I liked seeing Sam Elliot in a role that was a more emotional role that he carried very well. I am sure Lady Gaga fans went gaga over her performance, and well they should as this was for them. For me, not a Gaga fan, it was not moving me so much.
For all the Star is Born films, this one was slower than molasses to get to wherever it was they were headed. I was trying to see the 'chemistry' between Cooper and Gaga's characters and ... there was more 'chemistry' between Cooper and Andrew Dice Clay than those two. This one seemed more about family - Cooper and Elliot's brother characters, than a love story which became quite secondary in this.
The songs that were part of the focus - eh. But I was not a fan of the songs in A Star is Born from the 1970s either. This film - tries but it is for this generation, and got this generation's star and that is the point. But for my review it was an okay film where it's heart was not in the love story, but the love of family and the 'you know it's coming" end like in all the Star is Born films that preceded it.