Omarion, as he's known in the R&B world, is a bit too low-key at times and even more unconvincing in the film's more melodramatic moments.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 7, 2020

The music will satisfy fans, but when the action returns to New York this becomes as annoying as a skipped CD.

| May 15, 2018

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.

| Jan 25, 2008

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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 20, 2007

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.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Oct 19, 2007

Dramatic tension and narrative momentum are MIA.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 13, 2007

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 13, 2007

Reggaeton has officially come of age: The burgeoning subgenre now has a terrible, opportunistic exploitation movie to call its own.

| Original Score: D | Oct 12, 2007

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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 12, 2007

...rambles heedlessly from cliche to cliche...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 11, 2007

An awkwardly executed drama with a leading man better suited for the concert stage, not the movie screen.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 10, 2007

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?).

| Oct 8, 2007

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.

Full Review | Oct 8, 2007

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, clich-laden pop flick.

| Original Score: D | Oct 8, 2007

Could have used more music.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 8, 2007

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 8, 2007

The plot is contrived, the performances are all over the board, and Chomski's camera ogles his actresses just a little too much.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 8, 2007

This simplistic teen drama features an engaging young star but doesn't miss a "follow your dreams" cliche.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 8, 2007

I didn't feel this noise.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 8, 2007

Instead of trying to find the heartbeat of reggaetn, 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.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 8, 2007