A good film, but not the film I was expecting

Rating: 7/10 (29 May 2019)

How the story starts with Elton in rehab then goes back to the beginning as he tells his story was a similar style of storytelling to Bohemian Rhapsody which started and ended at Live Aid. I felt that the the storyline itself seemed a bit manic in places, but I think this helped portray the drug and alcohol problems that plagued him in those days.
I liked how they linked the songs to the story, though they were not strictly in chronological order for Elton's life, they helped capture the events and feelings of what was happening on screen - although I think it seemed out of place when others joined in singing lines of some songs, as though they were written from their perspectives as well as from Elton's.
I liked throughout the film how they recreated Elton's outlandish costumes, showing clips at the end alongside real images to show how similar they truly were.
I especially liked how they recreated the music video for I'm Still Standing with Taron Egerton at the end.
For a film called Rocketman I had expected them to make a bigger deal of its namesake song, but as I left the cinema it was Yellow Brick Road playing in my head.
This definitely is not a documentary of Elton Johns life, but I think it does capture what he was like back then, the trials he had to go through personally and professionally and while the film was not as good as I was expecting, it was enjoyable.