Average Rating: 3.6/10
Reviews Counted: 25
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 22
Despite the different musical genre, Feel the Noise is as generic as any music-themed film that has come before it.
Average Rating: 4/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 8
Despite the different musical genre, Feel the Noise is as generic as any music-themed film that has come before it.
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A 21-year-old aspiring hip-hop star from the Bronx is forced to put his career on hold when a gang of local thugs threatens his life and he is forced to seek refuge with his estranged father in Puerto Rico in this musical drama from producer Jennifer Lopez. Rob (Omarion Grandberry) is a New York City rapper who has gotten into hot water in his hometown, and now must flee to Puerto Rico. Upon arriving at his father's home in the Caribbean commonwealth, Rob immediately forms a bond with his
Oct 5, 2007 Wide
Jan 29, 2008
$5.9M
Tri-Star Pictures
All Critics (29) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (23) | DVD (5)
No one will mistake director Alejandro Chomski's Feel the Noise for great drama. But there's an undeniable sweetness to the characters, the performers are highly appealing, and the music sizzles.
Could have used more music.
It's the subtexts -- about minority kinship and Hispanic self-actualization -- that resound. If only its fable (and leading man) didn't keep getting in the way.
The plot is contrived, the performances are all over the board, and Chomski's camera ogles his actresses just a little too much.
I didn't feel this noise.
Instead of trying to find the heartbeat of reggaetón, the movie resorts to teen conventions, banking that its target audience -- Latino teens, who don't often see themselves onscreen -- won't know enough to demand better.
Iffy content, so-so story about wannabe rapper.
How do you say "sappy Horatio Alger tale" in Espanol?
A cool blend of Puerto Rican and Nuyorican rhythmic, racial and family ties that bind, Feel The Noise likewise taps into a hot fusion of African derived sounds and sensibilities that connect those multiple cross-continental roots together.
A cool blend of Puerto Rican and Nuyorican rhythmic, racial and family ties that bind, Feel The Noise likewise taps into a hot fusion of African derived sounds and sensibilities that connect those multiple cross-continental roots together.
It's hard to fault a screenwriter for cramming every idea he's ever had about anything into his first movie for fear there won't be a second.
Producer Jennifer Lopez's cameo in the film's climactic Puerto Rican Day parade sequence feels like a victory lap for successfully bilking film financiers and moviegoers out of their money.
Dramatic tension and narrative momentum are MIA.
Reggaeton has officially come of age: The burgeoning subgenre now has a terrible, opportunistic exploitation movie to call its own.
Possibly the least provocative hip-hop movie ever that didn't star Lil' Bow Wow, Feel The Noise is the kind of feel-good/kid-with-a-dream-overcomes-the-odds story we're used to seeing starring white kids named Hilary or Lance.
...rambles heedlessly from cliche to cliche...
An awkwardly executed drama with a leading man better suited for the concert stage, not the movie screen.
First-time screenwriter Albert Leon appears to have turned for music industry insight not to his famous producer (who has no excuses) but to other music-themed movies (Mariah Carey's Glitter, perhaps?).
This music-driven melodrama aims to salute and promote a cultural phenomenon -- reggaeton music, in this case -- by slathering it all over an instantly forgettable, cliché-laden pop flick.
Movie needed more substance...fairly good though.
February 22, 2008Super Reviewer
A 90-minute reggaeton music video and soundtrack commercial.
October 13, 2007Super Reviewer
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