Brilliant performance & a great movie musical experience

Rating: 10/10 (30 December 2019)

I am absolutely mystified by the bad reviews of this movie in this thread. Taron Egerton is brilliant as Elton John, the script is cleverly crafted, and the way song is used to tell a story is excellent.
There's a bit of magical realism, with the people that live in one's head appearing before one's eyes. Time turns in on itself, dream is reality is dream, but the sureness of the director's vision makes all malleability of time completely believable as a movie experience and story-telling device.
There is cruelty, which is fortunately overcome. The movie captures the look of the 1950s to 1980s really well. The costumes are, of course, fabulous!
The supporting actors are all strong foils for Mr. Egerton. The music is great, and Taron sings his own songs and is wildly better as a singing/dancing/creative person than most every other movie about singers that is out there.
I am astonished that Rami Malek won the Academy Award the year his movie came out. That was some heavy duty hustling on Malek's part. Taron's performance is by far the more complex, the more layered, nuanced, emotional.