Inauthentic

Rating: 1/10 (23 March 2006)

The attempt here is to amaze us with a Cinderella story, but it can't escape the level of a morality play.
A talent deficient actor poses as a talent deficient character/poseur. If they'd only spoofed that, we'd have something interesting. Wahlberg repairs 'copy machines' -- that's as close as they get.
The 1980s were full of heavy metal preening, but this is not about heavy metal -- this is the Hollywood version of 'heavy metal'. Back in the day, the industry churned this stuff out faster than McDonald's big macs. It required no commitment for commercial mastication. It was the same thing over and over again (a copy machine), album after album. It seemed the principal audience could never get enough. It was finally supplanted by irresistible force, but that's another story...
This narrative is simply a string of TV anecdotes ABOUT the lifestyle, ABOUT the bigger personalities in a weak cosmology, not that OF a cinematic experience. That would require some commitment, some leap of faith. This is simply everything we've seen in 'Behind the Music' -- pre-chewed and pre-digested.
Ignore this. If want something far more authentic, see "Decline...part II". If you want to see a spoof done right (cinematically), see "Spinal Tap". This is but a tribute to a failed paradigm.