Feel the Noise (2007)

12% of critics liked it
(25 reviews)
51% of users liked it
(108,225 ratings)

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… More 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 half-brother, Javi, who introduces his distant sibling to the seductive sounds of Reggaeton. Rob and Javi's outwardly divergent musical tastes ultimately blend to form a unique new brand of hip-hop-flavored reggae, and they soon begin to gain a loyal following that ultimately leads them both back to New York City. Yet despite Rob's growing popularity in the music industry, the gangsters back in the Bronx are still hell-bent on revenge, and willing to gun him down at the first chance they get. Is Rob's newfound status as a high-profile musical innovator enough to make him bulletproof, or could it be that he's more vulnerable than ever now that he's up on-stage for all the world to see? ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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Rating, Runtime: PG-13, 1 hr. 29 min.
Directed By: Alejandro Chomski
Written By: Albert Leon
Genres: Drama

In Theaters: Oct 5, 2007 Wide
On DVD: Jan 29, 2008
Studio: Tri-Star Pictures

Critic Reviews

Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
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.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Could have used more music.
Andy Webster, New York Times
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.
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
The plot is contrived, the performances are all over the board, and Chomski's camera ogles his actresses just a little too much.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
I didn't feel this noise.
Rafer Guzman, Newsday
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.
Cynthia Fuchs, Common Sense Media
Iffy content, so-so story about wannabe rapper.
Kam Williams, EURWeb
How do you say "sappy Horatio Alger tale" in Espanol?
Prairie Miller, NewsBlaze
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.
Prairie Miller, NewsBlaze
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.
Josh Rosenblatt, Austin Chronicle
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.
Michael Dequina, TheMovieReport.com
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.
Timothy Knight, Reel.com
Dramatic tension and narrative momentum are MIA.
Nathan Rabin, AV Club
Reggaeton has officially come of age: The burgeoning subgenre now has a terrible, opportunistic exploitation movie to call its own.
Jim Slotek, Jam! Movies
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.
Jim Lane, Sacramento News & Review
...rambles heedlessly from cliche to cliche...
Geoff Berkshire, Metromix.com
An awkwardly executed drama with a leading man better suited for the concert stage, not the movie screen.
Chuck Wilson, L.A. Weekly
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?).
James Diers, E! Online
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.