tick, tick... BOOM!

I had been wanting to watch this for a while and it lived up to expectations to an extent. While it was not perfect by any means, obviously the music was spectacular. Lin Manuel Miranda is obviously very good at what he does and the story is so crazy it seems it had to have been made to a bio pic at some point. And there are definitely parts where Miranda falls back to his Hamilton roots and it sounds very similar. Garfield is really good and a surprisingly good singer. There are definitely some shots that left much to be desired and there aren’t any the stick out a crazy amount but it doesn’t look terrible. The emotions displayed pretty well and there was some comedy but a lot of things fell pretty flat. I did enjoy how the movie was a circle that started and ended with his 30th birthday. He was obviously slightly held back by the plot as most bio pics are which is why I don’t always love a lot of them but he did a decent job with what he was working with. Musical films are my guilty pleasure so I did have a good time watching this film and it was solid.