Better Man, review🔴: Robbie Williams’s dazzling biopic is pure monkey magic✔ P B P

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Via motion capture technology, Williams is mostly played by 32-year-old Jonno Davies, who gives what I’m tempted to say is the best performance of this type since Andy Serkis’s Gollum in The Lord of the Rings. The physical integration is seamless; the emotional fine details rivetingly subtle and present.

Better Man is not otherwise an especially subtle work, and traces the usual rise-fall-redemption arc that’s long been standard for the form. It’s also occasionally corny, overripe and self-serving, and its final scene – a never-ending re-staging of Williams’s 2001 Royal Albert Hall concert, built around what feels like a 15-minute version of My Way – feels like a peculiar choice for a number of reasons. (The main one being: why would you want your audience to leave humming Sinatra?)

But it is also committed at all times, with a boggle-eyed mad-scientist-like zeal, to using every last gadget in cinema’s toolkit to bring about amazement. Not all of it clicks, but given how bizarre much of it is – Williams’s 2003 Knebworth gig is interrupted by a platoon of heavily armed monkeys, for instance – the hit rate is impressive.