I have to say, I'm not a fan of Stephanie Germanotta a.k.a. Lady Gaga. But I'm a fan of movies and I myself studied screenwriting (and journalism). This said, I can't say her performance isn't (very very) good. That's the first "surprise" of the film. We've seen her before in a screen (though not a big one) but she prove she can star a film.

Of course Gaga sings amazing, that's out of discussion too, which takes us to the second surprise: Bradley Cooper can sing and play, and also very well. And he can direct, too. The movie isn't very challenging through the lens, still the job is well done.

The problem in this movie is the story itself. There's a point when you wonder when is going to happen something really breathtaking, but it doesn't, it falls into a cliché drama with only one way to end. And you're really hoping it won't end like that because if it does, then you'll feel like you've wasted 2h16m of your life (and money, if you watched it in a cinema)

I'm not saying is bad, I'm only saying is ridiculous to think this is one of the best movies ever made (like so many people these days). This is a film where you will enjoy certain things: Gaga acting and singing; the criticicism of a pop industry (which is as shitty as the movie describes it) and Bradley Cooper directing, singing (damn well) and playing the guitar like a natural born rockstar.

But seeing this in IMDB top 250 (well, of course the IMDB doesn't stands up for greatest movies in the history of cinema, only stands for Most Popular Films in the (immediate) present) is absurd (8.3??!!).

Yeah, of course the fans of (maybe) the biggest pop star in the past decade had something to do with it. But if someone tells me to recommend a very good movie, or at least a good one, this one is definitly not on the options. If you want to see a plain movie where you know what's going to happen since the first minute, then this is the right movie for you.

Overall: Good acting (from a singer) and great singing and performing (from an actor); well directed but with a script that's only making this more and more soap opera as the time goes by. Too predictable and it felt like an excuse to show the world Lady Gaga can act (and Cooper could be a rock/country star) while it forgot that is a movie and should have a good story too, not just good acting. But of course, this will be nominated for many Oscars, because the Academy gets worse every day.

This movie is an example of how marketing makes people think they're watching good movies and future cinema classics, when actually, they aren't.