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Rocketman (2019)

Biography | 121 minutes
3,36 977 votes

Genre: Biography / Drama

Duration: 121 minuten

Country: United Kingdom / United States / Canada

Directed by: Dexter Fletcher

Stars: Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell and Bryce Dallas Howard

IMDb score: 7,3 (203.703)

Releasedate: 17 May 2019

Rocketman plot

"Based on a True Fantasy"

Rocketman tells the true story of Elton John. As a young boy, Elton decides to attend the famous Royal Academy of Music, after which he forms a musical partnership with Bernie Taupin. He will eventually become a world famous superstar.

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Onderhond

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Pretty okay.

To put the comparison straight away, a lot better than Bohemian Rhapsody. Where he mainly tried to tell a story, Fletcher is more concerned with making a film that embodies Elton John. I don't like either artist much, but cinematically this is 100 times more interesting than the Queen movie.

For example, the songs themselves are better processed in the film, on the one hand by not recording them 1 on 1 (or completely), on the other hand by a musical approach, so that you can go a bit wilder than normal performances anyway. The film tries to be as showy and eccentric as Elton John, and while Fletcher may not have pulled out all the stops for it, there are still quite a few nice scenes in it.

Egerton's larger than life performance certainly contributes to that. The rest of it is certainly not bad either, everything seems to be caught up in the world of Elton John, even when things are going a little less. The film may be stuck to the classic rise & fall structure, the way it is handled is a lot less disturbing than with most biopics.

For the actual, dry registration it is better to watch a documentary anyway, this film is much more in line with what I expect from a good biopic. Even for non-Elton John fans, it's a good movie.

3.0*

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mrklm

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At the beginning of this fascinating biography, Elton John [Taron Egerton] in one of his most flamboyant costumes (and that is saying something) walks into an AA meeting and confesses that he is addicted to everything and that he has become insufferable. That scene immediately reveals what to expect: the candid story behind superstar Elton John's success and personal troubles, and a brilliant rendition of Egerton, who transcends his hilarious outfit and glimpses the man behind the phenomenon. "Rocketman" begins with Elton John's childhood and the role his cold, distant father [Steven Mackintosh] and his mother [Dallas Bryce Howard], trapped in a loveless marriage, played in his personal development. Then we see Reginald Dwight develop musically as a keyboardist on a touring show featuring American soul artists, reinvent himself when he combines his enormous musical talents with the writing talents of Bernie Taupin, achieve fame with a legendary performance in The Troubadour, almost at suffers from his success and the culture of sex, drink and drugs that surround it, and how he struggles with his sexual identity. Lee Hall's screenplay uses the evergreens of Elton John's oeuvre as a mirror image of his life, giving those songs a new dimension that encourages the viewer to rediscover the music of the best-selling artist of the early 1970s. Egerton, who already performed a song by Elton John in Sing, also holds up well as a singer and Ben Foster provides many of the songs with new arrangements in a successful way.

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eRCee

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Rocketman is one such film that proves that the supposedly eccentric, flamboyant figures are actually not that interesting at all. The inevitably loveless youth, oh my gosh, then the unsung talent, the musical collaboration with a kindred soul, then of course the spectacular breakthrough, followed by the predictable fall into drink, drugs and a manager/lover who is only after money, gosh, who could make up such a story. The problem with this, of course, is that there is absolutely no time left to develop Elton John as a character himself. He remains a very flat figure about whom you actually get to know almost nothing. And some things you just can't put into a movie, whether it's true or not: the sentence "you have no idea how disappointing it is to be your mother" for example, but really all those family interactions are of a appalling superficiality and clichédness. The two lines where Rocketman could have scored are the collaboration between John and Taupin (how exactly does the writing process work? what are they talking about?) and that marriage with Renate: what is actually happening there? Anyway, within the formula film that Rocketman is, it should come as no surprise that Fletcher hardly pays any attention to this. Instead, it should all look overly smooth. I don't like that style. So it looks away smoothly, okay, now what? The music scenes couldn't carry me away for a moment. Egerton does his best but his voice is very flat, while Elton John's has quite a lot of depth in my opinion (I'm not a fan either, especially not of his musical aesthetic, I think the melodies are strong). Well, it simply doesn't last in the music film genre and Rocketman is definitely not an asset.

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