Review of Eddie the Eagle (2016) by Elan K — 10 Nov 2016

Eddie the Eagle is directed by Dexter Fletcher and stars Taron Egerton and Hugh Jackman, this film chronicles the life of Eddie, an un-athletic outcast and his journey to making it to the Olympics. So I had high hopes for Eddie the Eagle as it was produced by Matthew and starred Taron Egerton who was great in last years, Kingsman: The Secret Service, however this movie didn't live up to my expectations.

First off the movie suffers from huge tonal shifts, one moment it takes place in the "real world" and the next it becomes a cartoon without any explanations. The acting for the most part wasn't bad, I thought Hugh Jackman was good as come to expect but the real wildcard was Taron Egerton who I found his acting to be laughable at times.

I'm not sure if the real Eddie acted the way he did but sometimes I found Taron's acting extremely forced, so without any background information I'm not sure whether Taron did an excellent portrayal of Eddie or incredibly poor.

Also the comedy itself did't always land, as well the lack of tone going back to it again, sometimes the film would come of as family film, then the next a character would describe sex very crudely in a jokingly matter leaving myself as the audience wondering exactly what the hell is going on.

A few things that this film does have going for it, is pretty good pacing as well as a great third act that just made me feel good. And thats the thing, Eddie the Eagle posses one of the best third acts in a film as it really changed my outlook on this movie, it just elevated this film as a whole with a greatly executed climax that really made me feel all warm inside.

It felt like a totally different movie when the Olympic games started, the film stopped featuring cartoonist scenes as well as halted hitting the audience over the head of motifs that were so predictable.

At the end of the day this isn't a horrible film, it just could have used another draft to fix up problems this film was plagued with, overall this is a film I doubt I'll watch again however I would recommend it solely for its third act and with that being said Eddie the Eagle gets a 6/10.