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Good...but disjointed


The movie is a simple biopic. You can't make it unique by having weird 4th wall breaks and strange cutting of scenes. It's a linear story about one of the world's most famous people, not some art house drama.

I think this could have been so much better if they just told it as a traditional biopic, just starting from his childhood, to his youth to the stardom, to the downfall and to the redemption.

The movie was very entertaining, but jumping around in time just didn't make sense in the context of the story.

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The most disjointed biopic I've ever seen! Scenes work well on their own, but they don't mesh together... There didn't seem to be a grander purpose to the story, other than to show what happened (which I already knew) in a memorable way... so for that reason, it's not the most resonant story of somebody's life that's ever been put on screen.






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