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Film Brain reviews this Disney+ documentary as Elton John looks back on his career during his farewell tour, but offers little new as a retrospective for fans.

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00:00Elton John looks back at his life and career in the Disney Plus documentary Never Too Late.

00:05His rise to fame culminating in his famous Dodgers Stadium performances in 1975 is parallel with his

00:12farewell tour at the same stadium in 2022. As you'd expect, Elton is very candid, being open

00:18about his turbulent childhood, his rise to fame being a poor substitute for love, and his subsequent

00:24spirals into alcohol and drugs. Some of the best moments in the doc are the brief glimpses that we

00:29get of Elton's personal life, as well as the extensive use of archive footage, especially that

00:35of a Madison Square Garden performance with John Lennon. The main problem with this doc is that it

00:40covers almost all the same ground that Rocketman does, and that told Elton's story in a more

00:45interesting way that almost makes this feel superfluous. It's clearly designed to be an

00:49affectionate farewell, which it is, but it also feels very much like official biography, and those

00:55fans aren't going to learn very much new that they don't already know.

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