Gory, thrilling but story deficiencies let it down...

Rating: 5/10 (9 May 2016)

The current 32 reviews for this movie over-inflate the score falsely, many giving an overly generous 9/10. I suspect some foul-play in the reviewing, hence my reason for registering to place a realistic review. This is not Star Wars, nor is it The Shawshank Redemption, and so for anyone to award it with a score higher than 6 suggests fake-voting.
I did not have high expectations prior to watching this movie but from the opening sequences, the impression immediately was that "it's going to be good". The opening sequence is dark but comical, clever edits and a story which immediately interests.
And then Patrick Stewart appears, quite a surprise as he's without question the most well-known member of the cast for this movie, immediately you assume that it will be a great film.
The gore was impressive, the effects of the injuries were just perfection and at no stage did CGI appear to present. I also liked the blunt element of the 'horror' in that characters are killed-off without expectation
But, there were some fundamental issues with this movie for me.

Dialogue: The audio for some of the characters speech was not very clear, at the start of the movie I found it hard to understand what they were saying (particularly the scene indoors prior to their first gig), muffled audio and unclear speech were the cause.

Story Issues: I was a little confused by parts of the beginning of the story (up to the point just before they play the second gig), the story just didn't feel as if it were written very clearly which left me confused. It wasn't the case that "all will be clear later", some scenes just didn't seem to make sense.

Cast: In general, all characters were portrayed well by the cast members, except for Anton Yelchin whom played the leading character. This whimpering annoyance irritated me throughout the movie, he isn't a strong lead and shouldn't have been cast in that position. There were better characters in the band whom would have played his role better. Even Patrick Stewart's acting was under-par.

Overall, I felt that the current IMDb score (may have changed by now) of 7.7 was over-inflated and only due to the presence of Mr Stewart, otherwise it would be rocking a 5/5 score (far more appropriate). I suspect that we'll see this score drop as the movie moves into general release.