A movie bigger than Gaga's singing career

Rating: 8/10 (24 November 2018)

However Bradley Cooper's masterful performance and Gaga's equally surprising acting, this movie seems to have been created by Gaga's concert promotor Live Nation to boost ticket sales. A sort of "Bodyguard" if you will.
However, where the Bodyguard delivered JUST the right amound of tongue-in-cheek lightness that matched Whitney's poppy songs perfectly, Bradley Cooper created a sort of arthouse drama that would have shot into the stratosphere with a soundtrack that would have done the movie right.
Of course we buy into Cooper's character, who performs rather flat country mockup songs to make him look legit, which works. But the fact that Gaga, despite her amazing singing abilitie,s fails to deliver that one "I Will Always Love You" which made The Bodyguard, is a letdown: Whitney clearly picked her cover song to reach number 1 before the movie came out, making everyone curious to see it. But Gaga came up with a rather bland soundtrack which doesn't do the quality of the movie any justice. Ask anyone who's seen the movie to recite the first line of a featured song and they'll fail. A missed oppertunity for an otherwise briljant movie.