Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga

REVIEW BY: ROBERT CHANDLER

Will Ferrell’s EUROVISION SONG CONTEST: THE STORY OF FIRE SAGA for Netflix is lightweight breezy fun, a sketch masquerading as a movie, with Will being Will, often very funny but with an incredibly thin line separating the inspired and the abysmal (and sometimes the line is so thin you really don’t know which of the two it is and you wonder if perhaps it is both) and a committed, gamey performance from Rachel McAdams, who looks as though she is enjoying herself (we should always be cautious of performances where it looks as though the actor is enjoying themself), but then...

... Dan Stevens appears and everything changes. 

He is magnificent. Brilliant and focussed and funny as all hell.

Stevens always was a good actor trying to escape the awful shackles of Downton Abbey. Films such as THE GUEST and his turn as David Haller in the tv series LEGION showed how good, inventive and compelling he could be.

Ferrell’s celebration of the heart, art and absurdity of Eurovision is genuine and stuffed with love, but it is Stevens who lights up the film and makes it watchable.