But will it make you feel good? Only if your personal bar is pretty low to clear.

Baby boomers with their disposable incomes and nostalgia for their long-passed youth are being serviced by the old adage that music is the soundtrack to our lives — and what better way to relive those glory days than with movies designed to pluck those heartstrings?

That’ll be $20, thank you.

Queen tragic? You’ve been served (and rorted). Elton fan? Here you go, have a little bit of Rocketman. ABBA maniac? Mamma Mia! Love The Boss? If you haven’t heard of Blinded by the Light yet, you will soon.

Yesterday actually had promise, but it’s burdened by a confused story and some of screenwriter Richard Curtis’ (Notting Hill, Love Actually) worse sentimental instincts.

Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) is an aspiring musician, having played the local pub circuit in his English seaside town for a decade with little success. He has rich, velvety vocals but his original songs are a bit naff (which, in reality, should actually make him a musical superstar based on the industry’s standards).

Jack is thinking of hanging it all up and go back to teaching after yet another show where the only enthusiastic attendees were his mates, led by devoted bestie and manager Ellie (Lily James).

That night, a freak 12-second blackout happens around the world and in that moment, Jack is hit by a bus. When he wakes up in hospital, the world has changed. No one remembers The Beatles anymore, or Coca-Cola or cigarettes.

It’s like The Beatles never existed — and neither does Oasis, which makes perfect sense.

But Jack remembers, and he remembers all their songs which he starts to pass off as his own — not on YouTube like any other person in 2019, but through CDs handed out at his part-time retail job.

His songs grab the attention of Ed Sheeran, who shows up on his doorstep, because, of course he does.

From there, it’s off to international superstardom.

The first half of Yesterday actually flows pretty well, and it’s entertaining to watch the very charismatic Patel as Jack being thrown into outrageous situations, while Kate McKinnon, as capitalistic manager Deborah who openly admits that her artists are mere “products” to her, gets in some good laughs.

But then it becomes very muddled.

It’s like Yesterday forgot the movie it was supposed to be and becomes a mishmash of half-committed subplots and storylines that don’t come together, nor do they gel with the first half of the film.

There’s a love storyline involving Jack and Ellie, a typical Curtis will-they-won’t-they/have they missed their window conundrum, and the mystery of these two lurking figures who seems to know Jack’s secret. And there’s a “what if” sequence that is egregiously in poor taste.

James is short-changed as Ellie, a character that exists only as a love object for Jack.

Perhaps the worst thing about the second half is that even The Beatles music falls to the wayside.

There’s a lot of energy in Danny Boyle’s direction of the early scenes and Patel is very appealing as the lead — if Patel becomes a star from this, at least that’ll be a great thing.

But the climax couldn’t be more anticlimactic and you’ll wish Yesterday was about 45 minutes shorter.

Maybe instead of trying to overcomplicate a simple premise, the filmmakers should’ve just, forgive me, let it be.

Rating: 2/5

Yesterday is in cinemas from Thursday, June 27

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