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I've been waiting for this for years. I still remember back in 1967, in the week of my 12th birthday, reading that Brian Epstein had been found dead and knowing it was a big deal. A few years ago I kept receiving emails from the producers of Midas Man seeking investors and although I was a huge Beatles fan, I didn't/couldn't oblige. And now, finally, the film is out and... what an huge disappointment. Whoever had the idea of having Epstein (an adequate, if uninspiring Jacob Fortune-Lloyd) constantly talking to the camera, as if filling in the bits they couldn't film, did the project a great disservice. It just detracted from whatever drama the rest of the film managed to generate - and there wasn't much of that. In the end it just seemed to wander through the various dramas of his life, without ever making the viewer feel anything. Not even having Eddie Marsden and Emily Lloyd as his parents could save this. As letdowns go, this is right up there.

Unsatisfactory account of the depraved lifestyles of Maxwell and Epstein. Offers little to explain how a second-rate human being like Epstein could have wielded such influence over the world's richest and most powerful men, including 2 ex-presidents and Bill Gates.

Easy to see why the doco maker Vicky Ward has been accused of self-promotion and she certainly puts herself at centre stage at every opportunity.