Such a disappointment

Rating: 4/10 (10 September 2019)

This was advertised as a biopic in the same vein as Queen, but it's not. It's a musical using his music as the score. Right out of the box there is an overblown musical number even before we get to know the principle players. From there it doesn't get any better. It's disjointed making it hard to follow how the various events affected his life and his music. And Egerton's acting doesn't make it easy to watch either. It changes from flat and uninspired to frantic and over-the-top. And I question if some of the events actually happened. Did Elton John actually walk out on a diving board, announce he was going to kill himself, and then try to drown himself in front of a bunch of guests? And were his parents really that bad; his father cruel and his mother opportunistic? Or are these events just so much Hollywood ballyhoo? So much promise yet so little delivered. Like a candle in the wind (which was completely MIA).