Rocketman

David Rooney

The title of Rocketman is appropriate in that this boldly unconventional portrait of Elton John - charting the parallel tracks of his meteoric rise to superstardom and his simultaneous descent into an abyss of loneliness and addiction - has a spectacular launch, all engines blazing. It's mid-flight that narrative shortcomings start to kick in, with a succession of surreally stylized musical fantasy sequences that are fabulously entertaining but too seldom allow for the kind of substantial dramatic connective tissue that would invite real emotional involvement with the protagonist. [...]

di David Rooney, articolo completo (10496 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Hollywood Reporter 16 maggio 2019