Comatose

Rating: Null/10 (30 August 2019)

Melodramatic Afterschool Special music video with tired Public Service announcements between every track. Misfires from the first frame. Nothing stirs, nothing registers, nothing moves. The music and performances are all dampened as if the entire film takes place in a snow globe. You have to keep shaking it to get an effect... and shaking yourself to stay awake.
Very obvious that filmmakers watched Across the Universe umpteen times, but they haven't any of Taymor's skill or immediacy as a stylist or director and sequence after sequence is comatose.
Worst of all, the film has no lead character. Just someone dressed like Elton John wandering from costume party to costume party. Evidently, as Elton John is an Executive Producer, that is exactly the way he wants it. All show. No tell.