Get On Up
Embodying the life story of James Brown, a famous singer, who throughout his life, faces many challenges and obstacles, according to his family's lower class, the thing that effects on his personality. He shows the true meaning of determination, as he manages to achieve a great success through this bad life.
25 May 1970, Montgomery, Alabama, USA
25 August 1993, Waynesboro, Mississippi, USA
July 21, 1993 in Oxford, Mississippi, USA
2 May 1985, Loveland, Colorado, USA
3 June 1980, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
21 September 1984, Palo Alto, California, USA
13 May 1956, New York City, New York, USA
17 January 1976, Kentucky, USA
12 September 1970, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
15 February 1986, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
24 December 1953, USA
May 29, 2016
As prodigious a talent as Prince was, he only altered the funk. The megalithic, trail-blazing talent of James Brown birthed it. And Chadwick Boseman nails the telling of it.
August 06, 2014
In Boseman's hands - and his feet, and his entire body, for that matter - he demands and earns our attention.
August 01, 2014
The storytelling is mostly linear, with some confusing back-and-forth in the chronology, and it's a long slog. The Brown who emerges from this film has a monstrous ego to go with his monster talent.
April 18, 2016
Musically explosive, emotionally powerful and flat-out funky, Get on Up tells the outrageous life story of James Brown with a quirky brilliance worthy of the man at its center.
March 21, 2017
Warts and all, in fits and starts, finally the Hardest Working Man in Show Business gets his story told.
September 05, 2014
Chadwick Boseman gives a startling and galvanic performance.
August 01, 2014
Somewhat sanitized and over-directed biopic saved by Boseman's electric performance.
August 17, 2016
The narrative is unsatisfying as it leaves lots of unanswered questions.
March 26, 2016
Boseman is the highlight, of course, and Taylor is smart to keep his leading man front-and-center in every, single scene.
August 01, 2014
More often, the film skates along the surface of Brown's contradictory character. Now if it skated like Brown's dance moves glided onstage, that really would have been something.
April 12, 2016
Worthy of its subject and the dollars of music and film fans alike. As roundly entertaining as any biopic in recent memory.
August 01, 2014
Though "Get On Up" never congeals into a satisfactory whole, its fragmentary portrait of the singer at the height of his fame - intercut with his troubled single-parent childhood - effectively shows his invasive power in popular culture.
