Boomerang

Rating: 7/10 (18 November 2019)

I enjoyed the film Yesterday. It was very pleasant and entertaining. However, I do feel like the ending missed a huge opportunity to take the film to a higher level.
Jack Malik, along with a few others, were the only people on earth to retain their memory of special pop cultural events after a mysterious global blackout. Jack has musical talents that he uses to reintroduce The Beatles music to a world who has now never heard any of it before. He initially takes credit and praise for all the music, but in the end, his conscience gets the best of him and he goes on stage to tell the truth about the origin of the music, denounces the value he has brought to everyone, and runs of to live happily ever after with Ellie... Boring!
Jack and the other special people who retained their memories of once was would all have had different talents that they could use to bring value back into a world that lost some of the greatest pop culture in all time. Why don't we get to see Jack share more music (maybe even some Ed Sheeran originals that Ed didn't even know of), or the lady retelling Harry Potter along with other classics, or the man bringing back Coca Cola at his restaurant, some college basketball player doing the iconic Michael Jordan dunk, etc.
The key element to a great story is TRANSFORMATION.
What is the world like now that everything has changed, now that there are special people in it who can do amazing things?
Yesterday says that it would just go back to normal, missing some great things all except for some plagiarized Beatles hits that were put back on the shelves. A story where you end up right back where you started is not very fulfilling.