not as good as all the hype

Best movie of this year hands down!

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Mostly depressing that I sat thru the entire movie, after 10 minutes strongly suspecting this was a dud! No one in this movie is worth watching, music is trite and downbeat. Gweneth is just not attractive or talented enough to be the headliner (granted the storyline didn't give her much). Leighton Meester is surprisingly the most watchable, interesting character, but still not very compelling.Dull story (the tv series "Nashville" was really good, good music and characters) Can't recommend.

I have watched this movie numerous times and I love the characters of Beau and Chiles. Gwyneth Paltrow is just not a great actor. The other two upstage her with their acting and sunging. Gwyneth can't sing and her acting abilities as a country singer is too much Hollywood. I wish they would have gotten someone else for the role Kelly. Tim McGraw is ok nothing special. The chemistry of Garrett Hedlund and Leighton Meester is wonderful. They truly are country in this movie. Love their songs.

I liked the opening.It showed a humble, scruffy young country singer playing a non-descript low-brow gig, then driving his old pick up truck, while changing into his uniform for his shift at a psychiatric hospital.Oh jeez...Gwyneth Paltrow as a famous country singer? Give me a break. In fact, Gwyneth Paltrow as anything other than the untalented daughter of a Hollywood writer? Give me a break. I didn't buy it for a second.Nothing against Tim McGraw, but one has to have more than a Southern accent to be an effective actor. What are his qualifications? He's awkward.The best thing about this movie is Garrett Hedlund. He has charisma like a big movie star might. The music sucked and the plot was non-existent. But this actor kept me watching for about half the film, before I gave up.Alcoholism is such a boring and clichéd plot device. The screw-up country star and the hungry up-and-coming, aspiring country singer theme is equally clichéd.Show me something different. How about a country singer who wants to sing opera or funk? Or a country singer who wants to be a reporter, but can't break free from who they are? I don't see how anyone could actually believe that this sanctimonious, paint-by-numbers trash would entertain anyone. Yet plenty of reviewers here liked it. Go figure.

If you love country music, this might very well be the movie you've been waiting for. Actually, this is a good movie even if you don't like country music.The storyline is really interesting and it is one of those cliché movies where you already know how it's going to end when you've barely started watching. There's just enough singing, just enough romance. It's not an empty movie. There is a lot of character and plot development and it is not hard to get attached easily to the characters. The cast does a terrific job as they're all very believable and talented. I don't really see anything negative about this movie, other than the fact that the ending may come off a little forced but it is not enough to ruin the movie. If you think about it for a while, it even ends up making sense. This is a movie I would definitely recommend.