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I wouldn't count myself as a massive Robbie Williams fan, however I have enjoyed a lot of his songs. I went with 17 year old niece who was keen to see the film.

I was really pleasantly surprised. The first positive is I thought the cgi of the chimp really fit in well with the cinematography. It added something a bit more interesting to what could have been just another biopic.

Next up would be the reimagining of the songs that much are brilliant, from the beginning song now sung by the young boy through to Angels and the dance scene on the boat, but the real highlight was the dance routine in Regents Street to Rock DJ which I thought was tremendous.

The facial expressions captured on the chimp are great, the only thing that slightly turned me off, is obviously chimps have massive canines so when the character shouted it looked pretty aggressive and detracted from my connection with the character.

There are some reviews on here showing the film real hatred but when you read in to them it is more a hatred for Robbie himself.

I disagree with the views that this is him looking for sympathy, I think it is quite clear from the film that he blames no one but himself. Actually I suppose one of my criticisms would be he is almost too respectful of others. He goes pretty gentle on Gary, Liam and Guy, I am sure that it is actually more accurate as it is in the film and now he has had time to calm and think it through, however there was a bit of me that wanted it to be a bit more brutal, but clearly this is about a reflection on his problems and not passing blame.

One review makes a negative mention of his comments about the Spice Girls but he even acknowledges in the film that it was a stupid hurtful comment and that's why it is included.

Mostly this is about a Father Son relationship and the film covers it well.

The 2hrs + went quickly and if anything I felt that it could have covered more around the Take That story, also I found the scenes where he was performing and keeps seeing different versions of the chimps in the audience taunting him really got in the way of my enjoyment of the song scenes.

Overall though I really enjoyed the film and it was nice to see a calmer more reflective RW.

I love Kevin Costner and westerns, so went in to this quite positive, I had seen some negative reviews but was also aware that this was part 1 of 4 and many of the negative reviews hadn't been aware of that.

Positives:

I loved the different story lines

I loved the fact that we also see the perspective of the native Americans and they are given their own storylines.

The casting and acting are excellent.

The cinematography is phenomenal as is the soundtrack, especially the music over the bit at the end showing you what's to come.

There is a real feeling that you are watching something special coming together in Cinema history.

Constructive feedback:

I use this term "constructive feedback" and not negatives as KC has put his heart and soul into this and I came out really content, However I had some niggles...

Firstly I found that there were jumps in time (KC and the young woman getting to camp). One minute they were in the mountains, next they appeared well established in camp. This was also the case with the Sienna Miller story.

It almost felt to me as though they had edited too much out of this film. Even though this was a joyous 3 hours of entertainment, it felt as though they had trimmed too much which led to it not quite flowing properly. I felt like there was another hours worth of story. It felt like it didn't quite flow and stories and characters not given enough time to fill out.

I don't mind that there was quite a bit of character development and would have preferred more. Hopefully like Dancing with Wolves we will get a mega directors cut.

I am hoping that the studio gets more confident in the series and allows the films to be the length they need to be to tell a rich, thorough story. My view is, if the film is good, the longer it goes on, the more value for money I get.

This is a really Good start to the series and the studio needs to just have faith in KC and his vision. Also did I miss what happened to Jena Malones character?

Well worth your money and time.

So I was left a little disappointed after the last film, something just seemed to be missing but this really hit the spot.

The 2 central characters still have great chemistry, but this felt a lot more like an ensemble piece with more fleshed out characters around them. I'm just going say #Reggierocks.

Some great cinematography with lots of fab camera and drone work zooming around all over the place. The first person gun work at one point added a new dimension.

Miami looks beautiful with the Orange and Teal tones.

Action galore and a good protagonist in Eric Dane, although his motive and why he is doing what he is, was pretty rubbish, but he still played it well, and to be fair you don't come in to this sort of film hoping for Shakespeare level story telling.

Some fun cameos pop up which raise a smile.

The soundtrack is good and Lorne Balfe delivers on the orchestrated score.

It has all you would expect from a Michael Bay production. Definitely life still in the franchise.