See it to hear it

Rating: 8/10 (19 June 2019)

"Rocketman" is a weirdly surreal telling of a true story. But what makes it exceptional, and worth seeing, is the new arrangements for familiar songs.
The songs as performed by the star of the movie, Taron Egerton, are much more than covers. They are new versions of resonate hits, evocative of the source material, while bringing new elements that suit the vignettes to which they are set, even if they are completely out of chronology for the timeline of the story.
Essentially, "Rocketman" is a mediocre movie in which the story elements are interstices between outstanding music videos. But those "videos" are worth the price of admission.