Not counting What Price Hollywood, this will be the fourth iteration of this creaky story. Like the 1954 and 1976 versions of A Star is Born, this latest film is music based and like the previous two films, this version of the story features a radio friendly hit, in this case, the mawkish "Shallow". Take the music, whatever you think of it, out the mix, so to speak , and you're left with a badly acted movie with eye rolling dialogue and long stretches of inanity. i watched this film at home, luckily, because I ended up fast forwarding through much of it. Shortening it by a half an hour would certainly have helped with the pacing, but in the end, the film is done in by the fact that I just didn't believe the relationship between the two main characters, or that the actors playing them had any chemistry between them.