Michael Jackson's This Is It
Prior to his untimely death, Jackson was in the midst of preparing for a series of sold-out concerts that were scheduled to take place in London during the summer of 2009. And this documentary is a compilation of interviews, rehearsals and backstage footage of Michael Jackson as he prepared for them.
29 October 1928, Los Angeles, California, USA
8 May 1961, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
July 1, 1956 in Los Angeles, California, USA
22 January 1985, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
11 March 1982, USA
14 May 1968, Santa Clara, California, USA
1987, Netherlands
18 April 1950, Palo Alto, California, USA
29 August 1958, Gary, Indiana, USA
13 May 1987, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA
11 August 1988, Aurora, Colorado, USA
1982, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
July 07, 2010
There are some who will claim this documentary is ghoulish. I think haunting is a better word, as you fathom what the music world would have been like had he lived.
October 30, 2009
It's purpose isn't to reinvent Jackson, but to recapture some of the creative magic that made the kid from Indiana a worldwide musical ambassador.
October 29, 2009
It's a fitting celebration of a controversial man's last days, packaged prettily with a bow on top.
March 19, 2010
It's a goddamn American tragedy. Let the poor sick bastard rest in peace.
August 02, 2012
Don't watch this documentary film expecting to find insight into Jackson's troubled psyche, or to spot premonitions of his impending death, watch instead for glimpses of his peerless talent.
November 02, 2009
The Michael Jackson we see here is not a self-styled Messiah or a tabloid oddity. He is, instead, what he always was underneath it all: a talented musician, a brilliant dancer, and one of the most gifted entertainers of his time.
October 30, 2009
It's an expertly packaged -- brilliantly packaged, considering how quickly the job was done -- phantasmagoria that emphasizes, quite convincingly, the energy that Michael could still draw from whatever was fueling his wraith-thin body.
October 27, 2010
Sometimes he loses his voice and sometimes he even loses his temper. The film never shows us whether or not Michael Jackson had lost his mind. But it does show us that he never lost his talent.
January 29, 2010
If you've got the slightest interest in Jackson's music, then this is the movie for you. If you want to learn the truth about the icon, then you're looking at the wrong film.
October 29, 2009
Perhaps the best way to approach it -- at least for those who are not total Jackson fans -- is to view it as an often-fascinating document on how the sausage (or magic, if you will) is made for a mega-concert tour.
January 29, 2010
Because the show was designed to be a nostalgic wrap-up of the highlights of [Jackson's] career, This Is It works very appropriately as a eulogy.
October 30, 2009
Michael Jackson's perfectionism fails him in This Is It, and we're all the better for it.
