Cliche`d Junk.

Rating: Null/10 (14 December 2001)

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This movie looks like it was written by some Hollywood suit in his office who has tried to imagine what it would be like to be in the biggest metal band in the world in 1985. So the result is some stupid lame movie full of sex,drug & rock'n'roll cliche's. I mean its so bad that I'm sure that the whole thing must be a pi*s take.

Some of the scenes are so ludicrous it made me laugh. The scene where Mark Wahlburg is arguing on stage with his guitarist at a gig... In reality the music is so loud that theres no way you could hear what anyones saying even right next to you. But in this scene the music seems to quiet down while they talk on stage. Hahaha ...
And when Whalburg takes so many drugs that he forgets what city he's in.. duh!! ..that happens without the drugs. But this is a Hollywood movie.. you have to have the "singer gets messed up on drugs" clich'e in there somewhere.
And then theres the "singer sees the light ,leaves evil hard rock band and forms happy acoustic band" clich'e. No Hollywood movie is complete without a nice moralistic ending like this.
If this movie is supposed to be loosely based on the Tim 'The Ripper' Owens story...how come Ripper Owens is still in Judas Priest and having a ball?? Sometimes reality doesn't quite cut it huh?.

OK... Mark Whalburg is quite good ...considering he's been given a junk script to work with... But the acting looks forced from everyone else. It could have been a good movie if the guy had taken longer than 2 hours to write it.
2/10