{"id":2767,"date":"2021-11-10T12:51:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T12:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/?p=2767"},"modified":"2022-07-21T17:21:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T17:21:21","slug":"review-roundup-recent-2021-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/10\/review-roundup-recent-2021-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocketman (2019) Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rocketman-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rocketman-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rocketman-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rocketman-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rocketman-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rocketman-1200x676.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rocketman.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 98vw, (max-width: 1199px) 64vw, 770px\" \/><figcaption>Taran Edgerton in Rocketman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Director Dexter Fletcher\u2019s musical interpretation of Elton John\u2019s life (all set to his music) is an inventive and exhaustive experience that both overstays its welcome and seems to cut itself short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taron Edgerton is unquestionably brilliant as John, successfully exhibiting the musician\u2019s talent (with Edgerton impressively singing all the songs onscreen), weaknesses, and passions. Unfortunately, Edgerton\u2019s talent can\u2019t fully combat the fact that he is fundamentally miscast in the role. He looks nothing like John and is far too masculine a presence to fully exude the pop icon\u2019s flamboyance and quirkiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The film skims the surface of many events in John\u2019s life, but doesn\u2019t settle on any of them long enough to fully explore their importance. You get a strong sense of who John is early on, but you don\u2019t fully understand why success turns him into the demon-soaked, narcissistic mess he becomes later in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though the film\u2019s spectacle-driven style makes it stand out from the typical biopic, it dramatically feels forced and relies far too heavily on sentiment in the end to leave a lasting impact. <em>Rocketman <\/em>could have used a little less flare and a little more earthbound reality to fully humanize its larger-than-life subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>GRADE: B-<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Dexter Fletcher\u2019s musical interpretation of Elton John\u2019s life (all set to his music) is an inventive and exhaustive experience that both overstays its welcome and seems to cut itself short. Taron Edgerton is unquestionably brilliant as John, successfully exhibiting the musician\u2019s talent (with Edgerton impressively singing all the songs onscreen), weaknesses, and passions. Unfortunately, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3224,"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions\/3224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}