"Rock of Ages" Movie Review, Tom Cruise Be Main Actor

Movie Review Title: 'Rock of Ages'

Actor : With Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Julianne Hough. 

Info : Jukebox musical set in 1987. 

Director: Adam Shankman (2:03). 

PG-13: Sexuality, language. Area theaters.

"Rock of Ages" Movie Review :

Like watching your company’s upper-management team drunkenly cut loose at a karaoke joint, “Rock of Ages” is an experience that will alternately leave you embarrassed and amused. It’s worth the novelty, but you may have a hard time looking at everyone involved the same way again.

Rock of Ages Movie Director Adam Shankman (“Hairspray”) has kept the jokey tone of Chris D’Arienzo’s Broadway musical. But he doesn’t quite know how to open it up cinematically, leading to an uneven balance in which the movie both mocks and embraces its own earnestness.

Rock of Ages review, You may have heard this one before: In 1987, small-town girl Sherrie (Julianne Hough) arrives in L.A. with big dreams (and even bigger hair). She falls in love with Drew (Diego Boneta), a fellow bartender at the Bourbon Room, a club on the Sunset Strip.

The place is run by Dennis (Alec Baldwin) and Lonny (Russell Brand), who need an upcoming show with rock legend Stacee Jaxx (Tom Cruise) to solve their money problems. Otherwise, the mayor (Bryan Cranston) and his evangelical wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones) plan to shut the joint down. Also hanging around are a Rolling Stone reporter (Malin Akerman), a sleazy music manager (Paul Giamatti) and a strip-club owner (Mary J. Blige).

The story Rock of Ages, of course, is just a clothesline on which Shankman can hang power ballads and pop-metal hits from the era, which are staged with various degrees of inventiveness. It’ll be a long time before you forget Baldwin and Brand serenading each other with REO Speedwagon’s “Can’t Fight This Feeling,” or Cruise nailing the exquisitely solemn narcissism of Bon Jovi’s “Wanted Dead or Alive.”

But, of course, every rose has its thorn. Some of the actors have trouble keeping a straight face while nudging us in the ribs. Others seem willing to let their wigs do the work for them. Cram this much kitsch into an overlong running time, and the party will eventually start to pall.

The one unerring note is Jaxx, a megalomaniac clearly based on Axl Rose. As he’s repeatedly proven, no one captures unadulterated id better than Cruise. It’s tremendous fun to watch this worldwide megastar explore the basest nature of his own game - and a little poignant, too.

Almost 50, Cruise won’t be able to play roles like this for much longer. As the actor struts and swaggers, you can’t help thinking: If he’s playing for keeps, it’s ’cause he might not make it back.

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