Great music, fantastic acting; decent plot

Rating: 8/10 (27 October 2018)

I went into the cinema with pretty high expectations, having seen such phenomenal ratings for the movie. All throughout, it didn't go as I'd expected so I was just ever-so-slightly disappointed in the plot arena. However, it turned out to be okay. It wasn't a perfect, Oscar-worthy plot, nonetheless.
The biggest problems I have with this movie are two things - jumps and focus.
Jumps is the editing and time jumps in the movie. The ratio of Jackson and Ally's story was far less than the final scenes mainly revolving around Jackson, and you could very easily tell the movie was rushed, and they were forced to cut out a lot.
The focus was not too clear. Whether the story revolved around the couple, or Ally, or Jackson, it was just too ambiguous to figure out. It began with Jackson, and then moved on to them as a couple, and Ally's part of the story - both were rushed in order to continue focusing on Jackson, on which note the story ended. The ending was sad, at first, and then it just felt empty. I imagine the production team just went "We need a plot twist, and the audience should be expecting Jackson's lost of hearing in the end, so we need something that is unexpected. Let's kill him off."
All in all, the acting and songs were enough to compensate for the points deducted for the mediocre plot.