“England Is Mine” (*1/2 out of four) was a superficial biography of the early life of rock star Morrissey (Jack Lowden) showing him growing up in early ’70’s England and how he discovered rock and roll which would eventually lead him to becoming the lead singer of The Smiths and later a solo superstar. Unfortunately, film presents the young Morrissey as being both one-note and dull and as the result the film is too. Film hardly tells you anything about Morrissey that you probably don’t intuitively know anyway. Lowden looks a little like Morrissey but displays little of his sullen charisma. Hard core Morrissey fans might want to take a look but Smiths titles “How Soon Is Now?”, “Asleep”, and “Nowhere Fast” are apt descriptions of sitting through this

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