Loosely inspired by the true story of the heavy metal band Judas Priest. Lead singer of a tribute band becomes lead singer of the real band he idolizes.
12 December 1978, Austin, Texas, USA
25 August 1975, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
19 August 1963, Saginaw, Michigan, USA
27 February 1957, Battersea, London, England, UK
1966, Lynwood, California, USA
12 August 1958, New York City, New York, USA
9 September 1956, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
15 October 1969, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK
1 May 1969, Buffalo, New York, USA
15 July 1966, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
4 December 1965, Devils Lake, North Dakota, USA
25 September 1966, Putney, London, England, UK
27 November 1969, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
20 July 1972, Old Bridge, New Jersey, USA
14 November 1959, Bingley, West Yorkshire, England, UK
December 28, 2010
Not great, but moments of guilty pleasure.January 22, 2002
The weight of what might have been hangs heavily over the proceedings.September 28, 2001
A grueling and pointless endurance testJune 24, 2006
Every character becomes a cipher for a strangely reactionary morality tale.September 11, 2001
It has a comical sense of history and seems perfectly aware that it is recounting a myth.October 01, 2005
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.May 30, 2003
The milieu is more convincing than the story.December 30, 2006
The first half is hilarious but the second gives itself more to cautionary moralising and life lessons.April 29, 2009
A watered down, lukewarm and very cliché rock fantasy...April 05, 2003
Mark Wahlberg looks yummy in tight leather pants and that's a good thing because there's not much else to recommend . . . ROCK STAR.November 06, 2002
It is a nonstop cliche.September 10, 2001
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.