Self-Absorbed & Self-Pitying Mess

Rating: 4/10 (30 March 2020)

And maybe that's appropriate to who Elton John is as person; but it doesn't work for a movie that cannot decide what it wants to be - so decides to try and be a bit of everything - and fails.
If the movie wants its audience to be absorbed with the self-pitying of Elton's life, probably best not to shoe horn a fantastical musical montage slap bang in the middle of it.
Taron Egerton's portrayal is an uncomfortable, wooden paint by numbers affair focused on not on acting the role but a try hard impression of Elton John. This is only reinforced with the embarrassing credits which mainly focus on how well they copied his look & style from his career.
And maybe this is the problem, too much focus on trying to copy too many things and wanting to be too many things and succeeding at none of them.