Prey for Rock and Roll

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WIDTH="588"><div>                    Drea de Matteo                        Tracy</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="588"><div>                    Lori Petty                                 Faith</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="588"><div>                    Shelly Cole                               Sally </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="588"><div>                    Marc Blucas                           Animal</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 38 WIDTH="588"><div> Directed by Alex Steyermark. A musical drama.  Rated R (for violence, language and sexuality). Mac Releasing. Running time: 100 minutes.  </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="588"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="588" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 WIDTH="588"><div> <B> Gershon shines in sell-out gig</B></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> "Prey for Rock & Roll," the new film starring Gina Gershon as the aging leader of a L.A. all-girl rock band, suffers from a common syndrome that plagues so many artists once they hit the music scene. First they're edgy and original, and later they sell-out and couldn't be more traditional.  Ditto this film, an uneven mix of energetic rock idealism and disappointing conventional sentiment that starts off raw and ends up mainstream.     </div> <bR> <div> The film opens with energetic introductions: we meet front-woman and eldest, Jacki (Gershon), a perky lesbian couple on guitar and drums, Faith and Tracy (Lori Petty and Shelly Cole) and a strung-out rich girl bassist Sally (Drea de Matteo).    </div> <bR> <div> Bisexual Jacki scrapes by on two-bit gigs and a side job as a tattoo artist while faithfully plugging away at music with fading idealism.  At a crossroads in life, having just hit 40, she's hard-pressed to wonder if any of it makes sense anymore.  It's here that the film hooks you with its energy and milieu, and it's a kick seeing co-producer Gershon go balls-out, singing, playing guitar (her riffs trained by Joan Jett), tattooed and strutting around in full glam-trash mode, pride intact.   She's the sexiest woman in movies today, and here she exudes control and authority both on and offstage.  Gershon is simply marvelous at capturing the primal essence of sexuality and power in rock and roll, playing Jacki to the hilt.  In full feral mode, she tears into the punk numbers with an aggressive vitality that could convince you she's a rock n' roller making her screen acting debut.  </div> <bR> <div> The film gradually loses dramatic ground and focus as Gershon's uncompromising character ends up playing mother hen to all manner of silly domestic problems within the band.  There's a standard issue drug problem, an ugly rape, which doesn't seem to fit into the film and changes the tone significantly, and the typical band squabbles.  </div> <bR> <div> Beyond the assertion that music is a safe haven from pain in our lives, is the sense of artistic creation - missing is the grit of why Jackie has this unending passion, how it manifests itself in her art and just what about the focus on why music has driven her through life.   </div> <bR> <div> I was disappointed by this colorful film, principally because it dares to bring up an original subject - giving your life to a passion and getting nothing much back - then all but dumps the subject with distracting subplots.</div> <bR> <div> It's too bad, because the film, based on the play by rocker Cheri Lovedog about her own experiences, begins as a lively character study driven by a disarmingly funky and jaded protagonist.  She's offbeat but not off-putting, sexy, funny, talented and an altogether interesting product of her own uncompromising trajectory.  </div> <bR> <div> "Prey for Rock & Roll" has some pretty good original music, energy, a nice feel for the lifestyle of its lead character, and enough good acting to make it, at times, very enjoyable.  Not heartily recommended, but worth a look for Gershon's gutsiness. </div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="591" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> Lee Shoquist © 2003</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> <A HREF="mailto:info@reelmoviecritic.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@reelmoviecritic.com"><U><U>lee@reelmoviecritic.com</U></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>