The latest music bio-pic is....

Rating: 7/10 (2 July 2019)

There has been a slew of bio pics based on musical legends in recent years, most notably Bohemian Rhapsody and now, Rocketman. However, in comparison to an older musical biopic like Walk the line about Johnny Cash's life it certain adds flare but loses narrative. Bohemian Rhapsody was drawn out and poorly structured, in this case Rocketman was messy and jumbled, jumping from scene to scene.
Ofcourse, ignoring the lack of narrative structure, the individual set pieces and scenes were wonderfully done, and the performance by Taron Edgerton was great. Stringed together is a montage of really great and over the top music videos but barely justified as a complete piece of cinema, narrative and all.