Not what I expected

Rating: 1/10 (12 August 2019)

My wife and friends were expecting a bio-pic about Elton John, hopefully a little like Bohemian Rhapsody but not too much. What we saw was a surreal musical where he sings to his younger self at the bottom of a pool during a suicide attempt. In fact he sang to himself for so long that the paramedics were waiting for him by the time he was fished out. The movie certainly delivered the gay sex scenes that BoRap was criticized for omitting. A shame though as those would have probably been the best musical numbers in the movie if they had chose to do so. One scene could have been titled "Reggie's First Black Lover" and a horrible song could have followed which could have segued into Elton needing Bernie as a songwriter. Opportunity missed for sure. Nothing about this movie grabbed my attention and held it for very long. It's mostly a series of darkly shot musical numbers to hide to the CGI transitions and little else. Taron Edgerton was great as usual and it's too bad they made a crap musical instead of a movie. It ends with them inserting Taron into the actual video for I'm Still Standing. So bad. Just so bad