Rock Star Excessive Nature

Rating: 6/10 (21 July 2013)

This movie is about a guy who makes it big by being able to sing the songs of a big hard rock band, while in a "cover band". He is later found via video just like the real life band Journey found Arnel Pineda (except this was long before Arnel).
The movie seems to be made up of a collection of real stories which give you a small taste of being in a rock and roll band. At times the movie seems to be disorienting and flat, but it could be deliberate by the director to give the sense of the "sex, drugs and rock and roll" lifestyle (the highs and lows).
Several mini-stories exist within the movie that seem to be pulled from real life (such as blood transfusions for The Rolling Stones guitarist, Keith Richards).
There are groupies, drugs, televisions out windows and more. They even took the real life incident of nailing all the furniture in the hotel room to the ceiling (Keith Moon of The Who).
The songs are a mix of the 80's and 90's which sort of goes along with the storyline but I think they were limited by licensing. It could have been better given the time period.
Over all it was a good movie and the ending was realistic to me. I thought that the main character was played well by Mark Wahlberg.
There are some original songs from Dio, Hagar and Blackmore in the sound track. These songs are represented as real songs for Steeldragon, the fictional band in the movie.
This isn't a kid movie and it isn't completely family safe, unless you are watching it on regular television. Mild topless scenes with occasional profanity.
Soundtrack 1 Reality 1 Directing .5 Continuity 0 Acting 1 Script .5
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