A Colorful, Yet Forgettable Demi Musical Promotion of Hollywood

Rating: 6/10 (25 January 2017)

La La Land has dominated the 2016-2017 Oscar nominations and is another example of Hollywood hype.
It is a nice film, but also an overly hyped product for the benefit of the Chinese money in back of the production. Hollywood is drooling over the Chinese these days at the thought of them financing more and more of our movies, and this one in particular is like a musical promotion of the the US film industry.
As for the film, while it had good acting, directing and cinema-photography, it had no memorable musical numbers and had a lousy ending combing elements films "The Way We Were" and "The Last Temptation of Christ." It had me leaving the cinema less than satisfied. In that respect it violated the old rule, a light musical romance must have a happy ending. It began on a high and moronically and inexplicably ended on a low.