A Really Human Story, but worth 1 time viewing

Rating: 6/10 (25 June 2019)

Rocketman, in many ways is a rather generic musical biopic. Imagine the colorful musical numbers from Across the Universe with the persona humanization of Nowhere Boy, even to the recent Bohemian Rhapsody. In performance, Egerton is a superb embodiment of Elton's anxty sass. It is in grasping the traits the man himself has that the story is superbly human. By holding his most human struggle of knowing love as the vein of the Elton John biopic and with Teron carrying that struggle in his physicality, this film will move you to tears. It creates a total understanding of who Elton is from the very intimate inside to the flamboyant show he puts on. Rocketman is a wonderful watch for seeing a very human story, the depiction of his alcoholism wrecked me it's so real. The other half of the musical biopic however, is the spectacle of the music. It was just fine. Seeing as much of the story is told by stepping through the musical catalog of Elton (what you expect from genre) when it is fine song show after another fine spectacle, viewing gets winded, where you just want the story. Therefore I give it a 6 and say it is a great film, but only worth viewing once to grasp the emotional life of Elton, so glad to know after, but never again as the music and campy fun of it isn't all there to make it as lovable as say Mama Mia as an example of how musical catalogs be displayed. The frivolity of what you want was over steeped in Britishness.