Of all the here’s-a-cool-way-to-make-a-pop-biopic! ideas floating around in “Rocketman” that work better in theory than they do onscreen, one of the most pivotal was the decision to hav…
And maybe that’s why neither film comes close to touching the greatness of its subject. “Rocketman” is more up-front about Elton John’s offstage addictions than “Bohemian Rhapsody” was about Freddie Mercury’s sexuality. But it’s not nearly as captivating a tribute to Elton John’s music: what it meant, how it was created, how it seized the ’70s. And “,” in imagining a world that has lost the spirit of the Beatles, does so with almost too much cynical conviction.
That said, I’m seriously shocked that more people aren’t more disappointed by what a botched opportunity “Rocketman” represents. The movie has been hyped in such a way to make it sound stodgy if you complain about its iPod-random chronology.
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