Okay, let me think about this. It's not easy. Gina Gershon is still frikking hot. She's in her forties and still, I'd eat cherries off her lower back and stomach, and let's not forget Drea DeMatteo and Shelly Cole, man are these chicks smoking on the screen and they kept my attention that's for sure, and what's even better, Gershon has a pretty hot lesbian sex scene with a pretty hot black girl. That just has to count for something, I know it. And then there's Mark Blucas (no I'm not going to say he's hot you moron) who is pretty bad-ass in this movie despite his name "Animal" which is just goofy. He's cool here and he works well in a ridiculous movie.

"Prey for Rock & Roll" star Gina Gershon promoted this heavily, and as much as she could, and embarked on a country-wide promotional rock tour which was chronicled in a reality show on IFC. For a star to do that much promotion for a movie, it's rather indicative of their passion, but after watching this movie, I was shocked and couldn't believe it when I asked myself: "She did all that promotion for this crap?", because basically that's all this entire movie is. Had it been given a huge cast of actors this could have bombed big time at the box-office, but since it’s basically a shoe-string low budget film it was given too much passiveness.

Believe it or not, I never knew an independent film could be so utterly cliché and unoriginal. Self-indulgent, vain, and goofy voice over narration from Gershon's main character, the life of a struggling rock band, all the members of the band whom have different personalities and their own under-developed sub-plots, slow-motion shots, all the dialogue about "making it or breaking it", whether they should quit, creativity splicing together, the parents urging the main characters to get in a real business and make some real money, the band members muttering such chestnuts as "this music drives me", "this is all I've ever been good at", all such derivative drivel, and the whole kit and caboodle you can think of with this type of movie. Yeesh! Gershon went on a tour for this? Something I've seen thousands of times?

I knew what was happening when it was happening (come on, I knew what would happen to that rapist) and I just couldn't take the near two hour mark of this repetitive nonsensical drivel.  What was the point of this rambling story? Hey, I'm a rock buff, and I love this music, and while it is based on the real life of a musician who wrote this movie, it doesn't mean it's interesting. There are hundreds of rock bands trying to making it big, so what makes this so special? Well, ultimately it's just a homosexually themed film disguised as a rock movie. There's nothing wrong with being homosexual, and I have nothing against homosexuals, but when you parade your movie like its a glimpse in to a struggling rock band when really it's heavily based on homosexuals, I tend to feel mis-leaded and manipulated, hell we hardly ever see these women perform at all up until the end, and for the record, yelling "Lick me" and twirling your tongue like Gene Simmons during a performance? Not cool at all and just played out. But Yes, Gina, I would love to lick you.

And why should we care about this rock band? What makes them so interesting? Should we care just because they're on the screen? No, their music blows like a five dollar hooker, it's awful, especially the closing number which was just so badly written, and we're supposed to care, right. This was a movie about homosexuals and boy was it so misogynistic and inappropriately violent. What was the deal with the writer with all the unnecessary themes of rape and child molestation, there was domestic abuse galore, and just sadistic scenes that were so disturbing they were irritating because it’s all used as a plot device and not a statement. There really seems to be no point to the violence in the movie except to help the story, and it’s all so gratuitous. And was this an attempt to make a mock documentary drama, or just a drama?

Some scenes seemed live and the director with his amateurish methods looked like he was wobbling the camera to make it look like a documentary, and then we'd head in to the filmed scenes, none of which made any sense at all. Through it all the characters are boring. I could have tolerated the faux docu-filming method had the characters been at all interesting, but dear god they're some of the most vapid people I've ever seen on-screen spouting some of the vapid dialogue I've ever heard. The band mates have these senseless sub-plots which I thought were going somewhere while watching, I kept thinking to myself "Oh, this is going to go somewhere", but there's zero result or resolution from their plots. Lori Petty has nothing to do in the movie and is featured only when interacting with other characters. Not that I'm complaining, but still if she's in the cast, give her screen time aside from that ridiculous subplot where she's teaching this moron music student in a room, and then there's cutie Shelly Cole who barely has a sub-plot in the movie except where she's interacting with her brother who is just a walking plot device, Drea DeMatteo's sub-plot is only insinuated.

She's a druggie we assume but we only get two scenes of her snorting coke, she's an alcoholic, but there are really only three scenes of her drinking. Matteo's character is an alcoholic because, the writer and director make it obvious and--she has heavy messed up eyeliner, and dark circles drawn under her eyes all the time, and messed up hair. Really subtle. And Gershon has nothing to do in the movie, and she's the star! She has an insinuated sub-plot where it's insinuated that her family is dysfunctional and she may have been molested, meanwhile all of the homosexual characters here have at one point experienced sexual violence, which came off really sadistic. And the amateurish plot twists and basic character results are so utterly forced, melodramatic, and corny as hell. Give me a break! So, much like everything we're forced in to a dumb ending where the band performs, and by then I'd already registered out mentally.

The girls are hot, the drama's cold, and the music sucks. Yes, this is a mixed bag full of crap with melodrama, clichés galore, an unoriginal story, crappy plot twists, laughable dialogue, and sadomasochistic themes that run rampant. This really is a piece of crap with no point in sight. Let us pray.

• Gina Gershon is still hot.
• There is NOT a lesbian sex scene between Gershon and Matteo. Sorry, guys.
• Gina Gershon performs all of her vocals live in the film.
• Gina Gershon took guitar lessons from bad-ass Joan Jett when preparing for this movie.
• The film was based on a play written by rock singer Cheri Lovedog. The story is based on her experiences in the rock business.

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