BORING story, TEDIOUS music

Rating: 1/10 (18 January 2019)

So boring. There is no "chemistry" between the two leads - everything is so rote, so cliched and so dull. As a viewer I was not rooting for anyone, did not see any real reason for these two to be together and I found the songs utterly uninspired. As poetry, they are trite in the extreme and the music adds nothing. If anything it makes them even duller. The lyrics are clunky and barely accommodate the trudging onward of the music. The one exception is the pop song which knows what it is meant to be, does not pretend to be anything else and succeeds in its chosen genre.
I am stunned at the rave reviews that go so far as to suggest that if you did not like it you are somehow emotionally lacking. No, there is a way to make romantic sparks come alive on screen and in song, this movie had NONE OF THEM.
This sentence, buried in a review full of apologies for not sufficiently liking the movie, sums it up: "I just felt the lead characters were ultimately cardboard cutouts of music cliches without any nuance or originality."
(Zeba Blay and Priscilla Frank, Huffington Post, Oct 15 2018)
One can omit the "I just felt." This is why the movie cannot deliver.