Not Quite Enough Boyle, Far Too Much Curtis (vague SPOILERS I guess)

Rating: 7/10 (4 July 2019)

If they cut about 30 minutes from this they would have a 8/10 movie.

Ohhh, this movie is SO frustrating, yet I would recommend folk go to see it and I think most folk with an interest in The Beatles / Pop Music / Creativity / the Music Industry and also fairly 'Light but Charming' comedies will definitely take some string positives from it.
POSITIVES...
With some nice stylistic choices by Danny Boyle, and a nice line in humour, a highly enjoyable use of a great catalogue of music and warm performances from MOST of the cast, I found myself grinning at much of it, with a few guffaws too, as though I was watching a Cute Kittens video or something.
The first half hour or so is really strong,.I thought it was heading to about a 8.5 rating...
NEGATIVES
Basically when Curtis tries far too much to make it a romantic comedy. You are there, laughing, or grinning, or.humming or singing... And then BAM one of the most confusing 'romances' I have ever seen takes over for some extremely clunky reasoning, and there's feelings and all that...and it is okay the first time... But unfortunately, there's more... About I guess, on and off, half an hour more over all... And it's horrible, (and quite a number of things are said in this 'romance that just make one of the romantics seem almost unpleasant to me anyhow... It's really weird to be honest)
There's also a bit of storyline, involving an unpleasant character that was similarly clunky, and over done, but time wise this was not so bad, and I guess was needed for the story, but was badly done.
But overall I when I did enjoy it, I really did, it had some rather cool surprises and it is actually an interesting concept, and does make you think a little when it's at its best.

But it could so easily have been better.