Go see it, and then go see it again

Rating: 10/10 (7 June 2019)

I have never before been compelled to leave a review on this website, but I have also never before been so blown away by a film that I had to go see it twice in it's opening week just to feel like I didn't miss anything (something I highly recommend doing, by the way). This film made me feel so much that I want to tell everyone about it. Go see this film. This movie is so perfect and energetic and beautiful and epic and incredible and soaring and sad, yet it leaves you on such a high note that you'll be listening to the soundtrack for days afterwards just to feel a semblance of what this movie made you feel again. It's a movie about Elton John, yes, and an incredible portrayal of him and the soul of his music while at the same time adding something completely new and different to it, but it's also about choosing to get help when you need it in the darkest, lowest moments of shame and addiction and about what music can do and how it can make you feel. This movie isn't like other music biopics that almost entirely rely on the lead performance. This film has personality and energy that'll having you thrumming (on top of a career making performance by Taron Edgerton who fantastically does all of his own singing), but this film is first and foremost a film, and a great one at that. The way they incorporate Elton John's songs into the narrative and sometimes slightly alter them to make them fit the emotion of the situation is amazing, and they even do an incredible job of choosing Elton John's iconic outfits to fit the context of the scenes. I just honestly want to tell you every little great thing about this movie, but to save time I will instead spare you a mile long review to simply say: do yourself a massive favor and go and see this film.