No wonder this movie performed so badly compared to Boh Rhap. This movie is nowhere as entertaining or uplifting as Boh Rap. It's a very mediocre movie full of self pity and doesn't even qualify to be a musical. It feels very amateur in all departments. Right from direction, to acting, to screenplay, to music, every single aspect is straight up mediocre.
Elton John is one of the greatest musicians on this planet and this is such a poor movie that he doesn't deserve. He deserves so much better. The actor portraying him also barely passes. He doesn't possess an iota of charm that Sir Elton does. Sir Elton is always dorning that adorable smile of his whereas this actor comes across as quite obnoxious. But I don't entirely blame him as the screenplay and direction is only such that the poor fellow couldn't help it. I loved Kingsman in which he was there and know his potential, but here he disappointed me.
Being a musical you would expect every hit of Elton to be played but they only play a few lines every now and then and two full songs that are not that well recreated.
This movie deserved no nominations and idk why some people were whinny about it. Rightly so, it didn't get any major nominations or win any for that matter. On one hand we have Boh Rhap that was a true musical which was very uplifting and on the other hand, this film which is neither a proper biopic nor a musical. It's full of self pity and depression and out right boring.
Only scoring it a 6/10 because of the real life photos of Sir Elton John that they put at the end, right from his childhood to today, where he was giving that charming smile, rocking his crazy costumes and just being so damn amazing. So only for the photos and the start of the movie which was good, giving it a rating of 6. Otherwise a really bad film.
Elton John is one of the greatest musicians on this planet and this is such a poor movie that he doesn't deserve. He deserves so much better. The actor portraying him also barely passes. He doesn't possess an iota of charm that Sir Elton does. Sir Elton is always dorning that adorable smile of his whereas this actor comes across as quite obnoxious. But I don't entirely blame him as the screenplay and direction is only such that the poor fellow couldn't help it. I loved Kingsman in which he was there and know his potential, but here he disappointed me.
Being a musical you would expect every hit of Elton to be played but they only play a few lines every now and then and two full songs that are not that well recreated.
This movie deserved no nominations and idk why some people were whinny about it. Rightly so, it didn't get any major nominations or win any for that matter. On one hand we have Boh Rhap that was a true musical which was very uplifting and on the other hand, this film which is neither a proper biopic nor a musical. It's full of self pity and depression and out right boring.
Only scoring it a 6/10 because of the real life photos of Sir Elton John that they put at the end, right from his childhood to today, where he was giving that charming smile, rocking his crazy costumes and just being so damn amazing. So only for the photos and the start of the movie which was good, giving it a rating of 6. Otherwise a really bad film.