disappointed

Rating: 6/10 (19 January 2019)

At first i really really like the music, the pace and i thought it was going to wash away the raunchy memory of the 1976 version, where the immense ego of one and the famed personality of the other actor overwhelmed the story .
i did not know bradley cooper before this role so i thought he was a good match for lady gaga, and an offset to her personality . then, it became draggy and boring . an alcoholic performer is a pitiful sight but becomes really annoying when the misery is stretched for too long, especially when i came for entertainment, not sufferance . his ending puts a totally depressing note in an entertaining feature .
lady gaga was good in her early role as a performer, but as she rises in fame, she becomes lady gaga herself and rivals the immense ego of barbara streisand in the earlier version .
after the wedding, the movie becomes draggy and boring . it should have been edited to last under 2 hours but was stretched way too long . i can understand why it failed so soon from the premium theaters to be relegated to the cheaper venues . waste of my time . and i hadn't seen so many people leave the theater during the show in a long time .
if a little bit of the dirty, funny business behind the scenes like in the 'rock star' (mark wahlberg, 2001) had been used, it may have spiked the action, fun, interest into the movie .