Great musical

Rating: 10/10 (10 June 2019)

Musical that chronicles the life and times of Elton John (Taron Egerton). It also gets into his relationships with his best friend (Jamie Bell) and manager (Richard Madden). It's sort of an average biographical film but then people start singing and dancing out of nowhere. It's strange at first but I got into it completely. It's never boring and all the singing and dancing is great. Naturally they do only Elton John songs. Also they don't ignore the fact that John is gay. "Bohemian Rhapsody" barely deals with Freddie Mercury being gay but this one (thankfully) shoves it in your face. There's a fairly explicit gay sex scene which is a first for a major Hollywood film.
The acting is great. Egerton is just great and his singing sounds just like John. Bell is equally good as his best friend. Madden looks terrible and is just OK as his manager. All in all it's a strange film and not for everybody--two people walked out when I saw it--but I loved it and was fascinated. A 10 all the way.