Very disappointing

Rating: 2/10 (9 July 2014)

Saw this yesterday in a preview screening in Frankfurt. Cinema was almost sold out, about 600 people in the audience. Roughly one third of them left during the movie. In the comments here on IMDb I read about cheering audiences in the US - are you serious??? Of all the bio-pics about musicians of the past years this was by far the weakest. The story is totally generic, "working-class-kids-get-famous" - you could probably tell this story about every band or singer that got famous in the past 100 years. The main characters stay pale and one-dimensional throughout the movie. Christopher Walken's role is a mere parody of a mafia godfather. And the make-up of the aged band members at the end of the film is so ridiculous that I actually burst out laughing.
Can't believe this is a Clint Eastwood movie...