Rocketman

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Rocketman – 5 out of 5

I’m a big, big fan of Elton John.  I listen to his music all the time (my favorite song, hands down, is “All the Young Girls Love Alice”) and I think he is one of the greatest performers to ever exist in the history of the world.  There will never be another like him so when I heard he was getting the biopic treatment I was very excited.  I wanted to see Rocketman in the theater but never found the time but the second it hit the home media market I was all over it…and absolutely loved it!

Taron Egerton is effin' amazing!

As a young man, Reginald Dwight grew up in a household with an emotionally distant mother, and a father who doesn’t care for him and eventually abandons the family.  Reginald starts taking music lessons and as he grows he learns he has a gift for music and eventually changes his name to Elton John (Taron Egerton) in order to make it as a rock star.  He teams with song writer Bernie Taupin (Jamie Bell) and the two start creating timeless classics.  Eventually he comes in contact with a manager named John Reid (Richard Madden) and Elton sees fame grow.  However, with this success comes a lifestyle of drugs and alcohol, only to have it all mixed with depression and the reality that he is a gay man in a time where his sexual preference is looked down upon.

There will never be another Elton John and there will never be another biopic
as amazing as this one!

I think Rocketman might be the best biopic I’ve ever seen in my life.  While that is partially because I’m such a fan of Elton’s music and his larger than life persona, it is also due to how the entire story is constructed.  Essentially, the film begins with Elton leaving a performance to tell his story to a substance abuse support group and that’s a fine way to tell the tale but what is really amazing about the whole thing is the film is one part biopic and one part musical.  Elton’s hits are incorporated with his journey and there are entire sequences that feel like a Broadway music.  Add in the fact that Egerton is just killing it singing Elton’s songs and the whole product just sucked me in and I was belting out the songs along with them while I was alone in my place watching the film.

"What the hell?  I thought we were all dressing up?"

At face value, this method of including his music is just flippin’ fun but it also has an emotional resonance with the story as the tracks are perfectly utilize to provide emphasis on what is occurring at the time in Elton’s life.   Elton and John Reid are singing “Honky Cat” as Elton fully embraces the lavish lifestyle his fame can bring, “Pinball Wizard” is the bed used to showcase the whirlwind his life has become, Bernie and Elton duet on “Goodbye Yellowbrick Road” when Elton’s destructive lifestyle comes in conflict with their working life and, probably the most emotional part, “Rocketman” is the song he sings when he nearly dies as he attempts suicide.  I said I sang along to all the songs but at this point I was singing and crying at the same time.  This performance aspect not only helps propel Elton’s story but it enhances the drama, heart and emotion.

It's difficult to make things haunting, beautiful and heartbreaking at the same
time but this moment did it.  This sequence to "Rocketman" is enough
to make the film a 5 out of 5 all by itself.

You can’t have a biopic about Elton John and not deliver something that matches his colorful and glamorous persona.  Rocketman doesn’t fail at this and is an absolutely gorgeous film to watch.  The sets, costumes, and visuals all scream Elton John.  The unique compositions of sequences to create the musical numbers are just amazing to behold but one thing I really dug was how they were able to show how his whole career was just a riotous blur from a visual standpoint.  Using montage sequences or him walking from set to set or the world changing around him as Elton sat still help illustrate in a tremendous way how wild and fast pace his whole ordeal was and also helped illuminate the darker sides of his stardom.

It's not all this lavish and exquisite.

Finally, the cast in this film is just outstanding.  Bryce Dallas Howard and Steven Mackintosh were terrific as Elton’s parents.  Richard Madden really did a great job of being a toxic lover to Elton and a manipulative manager.  Jamie Bell had great chemistry with Egerton and really made the writer/performer partnership of Elton and Bernie feel authentic and, most importantly, Taron Egerton was out-of-this-world as Elton John.  He felt so much like the superstar that it became so easy to get sucked into his performance and believe the reality that he was Elton.  The reality alone of an actor trying to somehow fit into the enormous platform shoes of this one-of-a-kind man feels overwhelming and almost impossible but Egerton did it and did it astoundingly.

And they sure as hell made him look like Elton, too.

Rocketman is an amazing experience and probably the best biopic I’ve ever seen.  The cast is tremendous and the story is terrifically creative and doesn’t shy away from exploring the darker corners and hardships of this stellar performer’s life.  It’s visually stunning and the use of Elton’s songs is fantastic and performed perfectly.  From my perspective, it is a flawless feature that had no downsides that I found.

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