Michael 2026 by AverageMansReviews
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Warning:
there is flashing effects/colourful
effects/child-abuse/cancer/burning/disfigurement/shooting/drugs/medical/references
to racism and a sexual predator; Pepé Le Pew and for an rare occasion there
will be some censored adult language references at some point or another in
this content.
This film should have been called
Jacksons instead of Michael:
briefly; this film covers the early stages of Michael Jackson's life until he
is 30 years old; Michael Jackson [Young: Juliano Krue Valdi/Older: Jaafar
Jackson: the real-life nephew of Michael Jackson:] the front boy/man of the
Jackson 5 and goes on to have a generational singles career as the King of Pop.
Generally speaking: well we have a lot to discuss such as to begin with;
the first thing that got up my nose was the fraudulent title of this movie;
clearly to begin with you can't have Michael Jackson without bringing up the
Jackson 5, I know this; I have no problem with this matter of fact, but to call
this film Michael straight off the bat is... I will be nice first... is
disrespectful to the Jackson 5 legacy on their own merits, misleading because
we clearly just don't get Michael Jackson and finally exploitative; as his name
still sells and makes money, but we move on; this movie moves like a pebble
stone skipping off water in a pond; at one point missing a chunk of his life
and think a roundabout 10 years [basically when Jaafar Jackson gets introduced
into the film:] so what is the point of making biopic about someone's life if
you are just going to skip through it essentially creating a greatest hits CD?
I mean hell I will tell you about the script; it cherry picks or whitewashes
anything negative about Michael, because if you don't know I am sure some of
you know, but if you don't know for legal reasons, they had to completely
re-write a part of this movie and when I say legal reasons I mean we are real
courtroom documents so it had to be scrapped and re-written and obviously
re-shot.
Which
swiftly brings me on to my second point; so far I have not seen one person talk
about this gigantic elephant in the room and now I can see why; firstly can I
just say the people defending this film and highlighting its positives; you
really are a bunch of cowards, because you know and quite clearly I know now
there is one big point you have forgotten to mention... now shall I tell the
class or are you going to tell the class?... Okay I will do it, this film
leaves on the phrase "To Be Continued." Which of what I understand at
this point in time there is no sequel scheduled but in a nutshell they would
like to continue the story [ I will discuss this more later on in this
content;] but back to here and now; because of all of this so far; on
reflection it does feel and look like a greatest hits CD compilation, don't get
me wrong when we are in these sections of time and moments; the film blitz
framework and pacing of this 127 minute film settle down and smoothly gets on
with it purpose, but I am not going to lie this film is greatly helped by its
visual representation and Jaafar as Michael and the entire assembled cast.
Art,
character developments and performances; if I get this off my chest at the very
beginning of this section we can move on; I may be partly brain-dead, but even
I can see what they've done or at minimum how it looks... they have very much
painted over the cracks or diverted their audience/viewer's attention away from
anything negative with these spectacular visual spectacles which either became
the Jacksons or/and specifically Michael's raison d'être which conveniently
sums up the entirety of Michael's life, but for now I will park that and say...
the visual representations are fantastic and by far are a bit positive to this
project has the Jacksons or Michael was a showman.
But
if you listen or/pay attention closely it does drop some what I perceive to be
real big clangers or reminders that this film is walking a tightrope of being
fraudulent but in this case very much by design meaning we hear Michael make
reference to or something to the effect of I want to be mysterious on the basis
of not doing anything media related or/and he doesn't want any drugs.
If
you can't read between the lines allow me to explain; this whole mysterious
persona as you will see stems from possibly his incredibly strict upbringing,
but also behind this persona he goes on to have allegedly bizarre goings-on and
incidents and at some point as a history of drug abuse in the future; this film
drops these clangers/things to remind you that we are being fed could just be
on some level smoke and mirrors, so as it relates to the character developments
usually I would say something to the effect of they are good; but in this case
I think I will have to go with something a bit more in-depth; such as it is an
excellent version of character types of how they want us to see them; so they
may or may not be true. But what I can tell you is this... on my limited
knowledge of the Jackson family; they did is father and mother justice; Colman
Domingo as Joseph Jackson: the manager of the Jacksons and a complete posterior
hole and Nia Long as Katherine Scruse-Jackson: she always knew that there was
something special about Michael; which comes across in this movie and as I have
body referenced this cast of performers does an excellent job of bringing this
film to life.
This film receives: 5/10, this film is mixed; based on the positives of
this match I have even decided to award another mark to reflect the positives, but
having said that or done that, I can't help but feel or/and think essentially
this is a puff piece; which for those people that broadly speaking don't know
what this is; basically in this context it means to make someone or something
look better than what they are or what they were in the most positive light and
if possible to disregard the negatives or at the very worst shrink them down,
so it is damage limitation at best.
Now
we come on to the massive problem faced with this movie and like I said earlier
I would discuss more about the script; I don't know the ins and outs, so I'm
just talking from an outsider's perspective; I honestly don't know how the hell
they are going to get the next 20 years of his life in a sequel project...
because it is clearly going to cover the downfall of Michael and I am not a
legal genius, if they had legal issues with this film, speaking with common
sense in mind you are going to clearly have multiple upon multiple issues when
it comes to his allegations and bizarre incidents and if by some miracle you
get the legal go-ahead on some legal go-aheads but not on others which
hopefully they won't... are they even going to join the dots and make it up as
they go along or are they just going to make the whole thing up if they don't
get the legal go-ahead? As the person I watch some of this content with
reminded me that there is a lot you can still do, but it's difficult because of
legal issues, because it would be a giant elephant in the background of this
sequel and not forgetting protecting those individuals that allegedly may or
may not have been going through the situations to potentially relive these
moments again on the big screen may be too much and if I am being brutally
honest with you, I think if this sequel did come out that would be a complete
manure show. So the person and I came up with the conclusion that they should
really just leave it at this movie and leave him on top and how he should be
remembered for the King of Pop.
Yes,
this film does have some awards accredited to its name such as 2 Winners which
include but not limited to California on Location Awards 2024 COLA Location
Manager of the Year - Studio Feature Film Chris Baugh and 1 Nominee from the
same award ceremony/event Location Team of the Year - Studio Feature Film Chris
Baugh (supervising location manager) Erce Deli Cantu (key assistant location
manager) Kim Jordan (assistant location manager) Ted Kim (key assistant
location manager) Sofia Ochoa (key assistant location manager) Jeanie Farnam
(key assistant location manager) Michael Soleau (key assistant location
manager) Marie Healy (key assistant location manager) Santino Salamon (key
assistant location manager)
