The life of Chris Cole, an ambitious and talented guy admires Rock and dreams of becoming a rock star, has been changed completely upon meeting a rock star, as he helps him, but incidents come to frustrate him after being kicked out by his best friend, but by the help of his girlfriend, he manages to achieve a great success.
Just as it should be falling apart, its melodrama becomes more touching than ever, ultimately shaping a film about much more than any band and more poetic than any song on the radio.
A movie about the gullible and pitched to the naive, Rock Star struggles to resist being as generic as its title, but is never more than just another replay of the hoary postulate that showbiz is all about rising, falling and being redeemed.
Empire Magazine
December 30, 2006
The first half is hilarious but the second gives itself more to cautionary moralising and life lessons.