Overrated af. First part of the movie is good, but then it turns into boring mess. Gaga sings great, but she plays herself & Cooper is good alcoholic, but overall bland.

Rating: 5/10 (29 December 2018)

This is the one movie of the year, where I really wonder how it has been recognized as such a masterpiece by almost everyone, and really it is just one more remake of very well - known Hollywood story, clichÃ© love story and familiar tale about glamour and pain of fame. For me it is nothing special, I prefer movies that bring something new to the cinema, from the technical side or from the plot/storytelling side, this film brings nothing new.
Lady Gaga plays Ally, a very musically talented girl, who works in a restaurant and occasionally, in the evenings, gives performances at a local bar. She dreams of being a real singer, but like so many artistic souls, she has complexes and little faith in herself, she doesn't have enough strength to face the brutality and falsity of the show business. And then one night, she meets Jack (Cooper) - famous and accomplished singer& artist, who is on the way down, destroyed by fame, his demons and alcoholism. He watches her performance, is delighted with her talent and herself, and from that moment things go fast - they fall in love with each other, Jack helps Ally become a real star etc. However, of course, only then the real problems start to emerge, Jack cannot defeat his demons, the finale is tragic, which can be seen from miles away, the most clichÃ© ending in the world, calculated for cheap emotions.
Yes, the first part of the movie : all Ally's way to the top and a thriving romance is a well made story, and Gaga& Cooper have an undeniable chemistry, but that's absolutely no masterpiece.
Problems of this film begin in the second part. The script very quickly and superficially jumps to Ally's success, and although we see Jack struggling with addiction and childhood demons, the protagonists' motives are shown very superficially and unconvincingly, real drama/conflict is nowhere to be found, there is a boring story about family drama, emerging from poor dialogues. During the second part of the movie, in one moment, I found out, that from the boredom, I did not even remember what exactly characters said a second before, because I started thinking about something completely different. Cooper is good alcoholic, but so were 10000 actors in 100 different movies before, the rest of his role is bland. It was even one really bad moment from Cooper, when Jack started crying, talking about attempted suicide - it was so fake, really bad acting (sorry, coz I like Cooper, but this is just how I see it).
The same goes with Sam Elliott, I genuinely don't understand what fuss is about and how is he supposed to win Oscar for best supporting role. He has maybe 5 scenes in the whole movie and he's not doing anything innovative in them.
Music, I admit, is very good and ''Shallow'' will win Oscar for best song, there is not doubt abt this one. Gaga sings great and imo is better than Cooper with her acting, but she still just plays herself, nothing special and I hope Glenn Close will finally win her Oscar, she is fantastic in ''The Wife''. I feel like a lot of people are exaggerating in the assessment of this film, because how they feel about music, great music makes them emotional ( the same case with ''Bohemian Rhapsody''), but we are supposed to rate the movie/acting not music and singing.
So, in general, the movie is massively overhyped. It's 6/10 from me.