Overrated. 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 (25 June 2019)

This is the one movie of the year, in case of which, I really wonder, how it has been recognized as such a masterpiece by almost everyone, but really it is just one more average remake of very well - known Hollywood story, cliché 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 art of 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, recording artist/singer, but like so many artistic souls, she has complexes and little faith in herself, she doesn't have enough strength to face 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 is watching her performance, is delighted with her talent 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, but can be seen from miles away, the most cliché 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 screenplay very quickly and superficially jumps to Ally's success and although we see Jack struggling with addiction and childhood demons, his motives are still presented very superficially and unconvincingly, the whole drama/conflict is rather ''talked'' about instead of shown, and this is screenwriting mistake 101. I was so bored with the second part of the movie, that I found myself thinking about something completely different during it.
Cooper is good alcoholic, but so were 10000 actors in 100 different movies before him, the rest of his role is bland. There was even one really bad moment from Cooper, when Jack started crying, talking about attempted suicide - it was so fake and over the top, really bad acting.
The same goes with Sam Elliott, I genuinely don't understand what the fuss was about and how he was supposed to win Oscar for best supporting role. He has maybe 5 scenes in the whole movie and he's not doing anything innovative or amazing acting- wise in them.
Music, I admit, is very good and I knew from the start that ''Shallow'' will win Oscar for best song. Gaga sings great and imo is better than Cooper with her acting, but she still just plays herself, nothing special. I was hoping Glenn Close will finally win her Oscar for best lead actress, she was fantastic in ''The Wife'', but it didn't happen.
I feel like a lot of people are exaggerating in the assessment of ''Star is born'', 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.
Generally a very overrated movie, it doesn't deserve more than 5.