Rocketman is a turbo-charged rock fantasia that pushes hard against the boundaries of the medium; The songs explode from the screen, time jumps catapult the story forward with exhilarating elan and even the emotional stuff lands, for the most part
it's all grand and fun and corny, a musical fantasy that reaches for the sky and gets there often enough to make it diverting but also frustrating; He [Taron Egerton] does a fine job that isn't an imitation
Dexter Fletcher's rousingly good natured "Rocketman" is a sucrose-enriched biopic-slash-jukebox-musical hybrid; it is an honest, heartfelt tribute to Elton John's music and his public image
Dexter Fletcher has fashioned an ebullient monument to pop superstar Elton John --featuring a committed turn from Taron Egerton in the lead role-- that's cliched in the telling, but gets by on the strength of his early catalog