this film be really something of a curate egg and good in part . in contrast to other reviewer and i find that the main fault with it be it inability to draw in the viewer interest in the character and the plot . i sit through it because i be interested in rocknroll and the dynamic of band and but if i be to evaluate it purely on the basis of it merit a a movie and i would have to give it the thumb down and with a few caveat represent jason behr be good in the part of john livien and and quite convincing a a rock singer while the narrative regard his childhood trauma be unclear and although we be give hint in livien well act relationship to his parent and but his behaviour be ultimately bizarre to the viewer ( which it shouldn not be ) . nevertheless the idea of use a stage persona to solve inner conflict be interesting and albeit not novel nor fully explore a a theme in this film . the allusion to john lennon be irritate and but i confess i be not a beatles fan . at any rate and livien and his band remind me more of oasis than the beatles and in the sense that there be something derivative about them . another frustrating thing about the movie be the way it open up with some interesting albeit middlebrow and high school level philosophical musing of the lead character and but leave the thread of his thinking there and only to pick them up again in the middle of the film very briefly and when livien say and before god and there be music ( ever see that ad for tia maria in the 1990s and before time and there be tia maria . that what spring to mind anyway ) while it seem an idiotic conclusion and and the viewer have no idea how he reach it and but he entitle to it . fortunately his bassist and friend and play ably by dominic monaghan and seem to acknowledge the fallacy of this thinking when he respond you do not know that . in all and the limited strength of the direction and the plot could go either way on future project and into pointless banality or into an interesting and more mature perspective .