It lasts for 12 seconds, but during that time Jack gets hit by a bus, which conks him right out. Granted, we arent watching the Beatles Were seeing a kind of pop-culture what-if joke, all revolving around the modest figure of Jack Malik (Himesh Patel), an appealing if painfully earnest 27-year-old Indian-British singer-songwriter who can barely get a dozen people to show up for his gig at a music festival. Yet there isnt a scene in it that gives you that same kind of high. To know that, all you have to do is see the title sequence of A Hard Days Night, which electrifies you from its opening THRUM, or (in the same film) the Beatles blasting the sonic bliss of I Should Have Known Better from inside a train storage compartment, or the sublime melting psychedelia of the Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds flying-damsel fantasia from Yellow Submarine, or Paul gazing into the camera as he delivers the hymn-like rapture of the title song from Let It Be. Its cute and watchable, but it lacks the magic of discovery.
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