Jonathan

Excellent, entertaining and well written and well acted.

Bowie deserved better and its quite right that his family did not sanction this film. His Hunky Dory voice, "oh God - I could do better than that!" echoed in my head as I watched Mr Flynn channel early reminiscences of Princess Di more than David Bowie. The sense of fragility, the down-cast face with gentle eyes upward, his performance should have been filmed in front of the Taj Mahal preferably wearing a bipperty-bopperty hat. For me David Bowie was never this type of persona, his music from the get go was about being courageously different and inventively unique, mirrored through a series of carefully calculated, confident, and deliberately non-conformist styles to make his point. Not the subdued, repressed, go with the flow wall-flower, the film seems to portray. Whilst the film helped explain some of the background and context of Bowie's early work, it doesn't inspire nor give the OTT glam that I believe any film about David Bowie deserves.

Unsurprisingly there are the usual negative reviews by all and sundry - but from my 'ok boomer' perspective, it was excellent and on the money! Wonderfully acted by a great cast, humorously written, and well upto expectations. A bit more star warsian like in aliens and desert scene strandings and the like, but also peppered with comedic homages for instance like the one to Thor. Overall highly enjoyable and recommended. 7.5 out of 10.