Review of Rocketman (2019) by Marklaing1 — 28 Apr 2020

I knew we were in trouble when I heard that Elton was making it himself as such vanity projects rarely turn out well. However, my wife saw it on a flight back to LA from NY and said it was great. OK, I'll give it a try.

Akk. It started out in rehab and ended in rehab. It's not so much a BioPic as a sort of tale of a star's rehab struggles, which is fine for a documentary.

Where was the story of "Yellow Brick Road", which was a flash on the screen in a montage, where are the rest of the band? What's up with that weird Kiki Dee scene which just kind of ends? I remember at the time Elton was so kind to help resurrect Kiki's career which was floundering and it just sort of drops into the movie. Weird. Yellow Brick Road hit us all at school like a bomb (I was going boarding school in the UK in the 70s so this was my generation) and it was amazing. We listened to it until the record was worn out. We loved, and still love Elton John's music.

Taron Egerton was sort of "OK". Too tall, too well-built but too little musical skill to carry off the famous tunes.