Review of The Greatest Showman (2017) by Bfoore90 — 14 Jan 2018

Most of the core complaints against this film seems to be that of the differences between P.T. Barnum in real life and PT Barnum in the film, played wonderfully by Hugh Jackman. The movie starts off really well and it does leave you with some clues to who PT Barnum was before he became the "Greatest Showman," the problem really lays in the middle where two many plot lines, subpolots, ect start to intertwine and the film starts to feel overwhelming.

However, the film really starts to pick back up towards the end where alot of the enjoyment really can be had. The movie is very solidly made, it could have benefited from a more polished director but the cast (Jackman, Efron, Zendaya, to name a few), visuals, set pieces and score give the movie the boost it needs to recover from a murky middle.