The Robbie Williams biopic Better Man – the one where he's a CGI chimp – has just landed on Prime Video.
Directed by The Greatest Showman's Michael Gracey, the film charts Robbie's life – from his childhood, early success with Take That and falling out with Gary Barlow to his drug-fuelled chart-topping solo year and record-setting performance at Knebworth.
Robbie himself provides his own voice, while Gavin & Stacey's Alison Steadman and Inside No 9's Steve Pemberton play his grandmother and father.
The film was sadly a bomb at the cinema, making about $22.5 million worldwide off the back of a reported $110 million budget.
Now it's available to subscribers of Amazon's streaming service, will it find a second lease of life?
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It's definitely a recommended watch, as it has a 89% positive score on Rotten Tomatoes from over 200+ reviews, while the average fan score is even higher at 90%.
Digital Spy gave the movie a five-star review and dubbed Better Man "A fantastic (and fantastical) spin on a classic rise-and-fall biopic" and "One of the best movies of the year".
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The Atlantic called it "one of the most thoughtfully constructed movies about a musician I've seen in years", while Variety said that "the execution is downright astonishing – we're talking Wachowski-level ingenuity as Gracey fashions sophisticated montages where you can't even spot the cuts."
"Walking a dizzying line between the stupid and the profound, this exuberant, positively unique biopic is as hard to resist as it is to believe that it got made in the first place," Slant stated, while Mark Kermode said: "It is overlong, it is indulgent, and it is essentially foolish, but for all that, it is much more rewarding and entertaining than I expected."
Better Man is available to stream now for Prime Video subscribers.
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