ALMOST PERFECT

Rating: 9/10 (5 July 2019)

I loved this movie. The concept was genius and the performances outstanding, with one exception: Robert Carlyle as John Lennon. Carlyle is a good actor, he should have been up to the small part but he just wasn't. True, he had to play Lennon at age 78. Although it is possible that had Lennon lived to this age he may have grown more soft spoken, as with Carlyle's performance, but the cadence would not have changed. It should have been easy to imitate Lennon's distinct inflection but watching the performance it appeared that almost no effort was made on the actor's part to do so. He did look like Lennon, though. They should have considered someone dubbing Lennon's voice and I would have given it a perfect 10.