2/5
Written by Luke Barnes
I am not a fan of Hamilton……….. I’ll leave that to sink in.
When trailers for this film came out and a lot of people started to get very excited for it, I remained cool. After watching I am decidedly more so.
Firstly this is not a film that needs to be seen in cinemas; I am still waiting for a film that will make me say ‘wow this is better than watching it at home’ whilst in the cinema. The sound mixing much like Nolan’s Tenet serve to undermine the film some what and the loudness of the music itself makes the sung dialogue within it almost hard to hear.
Moreover, I don’t like that everything in this film is sung rather than said. Yes, I know it is a musical, but plenty of musicals have scenes of dialogue in between songs- it doesn’t all need to be sung. Almost every conversation in this film is done to music and in a song-like way, which honestly lessens any sort of dramatic impact.
Perhaps most damning of all the songs themselves are not even that good. The first song, the one that has been in all the trailers is passably okay, but after that they take a steep nosedive in quality to a point where it feels like they have given up trying.
Overall, maybe Hamilton fans or diehard musical lovers will be able to get something out of this, I for one just got my time wasted.
Pros.
It is a loud and colourful and easy to turn your mind off to
It doesn’t really require you to pay attention
Cons.
Too many songs
Most of these songs are of an average or poor quality
It is on for far, far too long
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