Review of This Is It

This Is It (2009)
5/10
Sad end to a sad life
15 December 2018
I grew up with Michael Jackson, The Jackson 5, all of the media hype everything. This movie is like a few other reviewers said a mish mosh of put together clips to try and give us something insightful into Michael Jackson's final days

He was obviously in bad health, thin, winded, couldn't even sing most of the time. He kept saying he was saving his voice, his voice was going as was his stamina. He was 50 years old, his days on stage had been over for years.

I had watched this film when it came out years ago and thought OK, that's what he was working on. I wanted to watch it again, and what I really saw this time was a man trying to do a comeback with dancers half his age and trying to keep up with them. He couldn't do it anymore, sad truth.

I agree with some of the other reviews in the sense that Ortega had to slap something together to try and recoup some lost income from his death. Michael was in bad health and people took advantage of him till the day he died.

I wish I could give this a good review but it's just sad this man lived in the fishbowl that we all put him in. He was a great, talented beyond words but, if this movie makes you feel better seeing Michael Jackson move around the stage in short clips then feel good. It just makes me sad and angry that he died so soon and in the way he did.
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