Michael Jackson: The Life of an Icon

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Two and a half hours of life-spanning superficial gushing. There is almost no music in the film. Michael Jackson was a great musician and dancer, and the production clearly only had the rights to the Motown Jackson 5 music. There is no subsequent music whatsoever, no performance footage, and no interesting archival footage at all. There must be so much incredible footage of Michael Jackson out there that could be shaped into an exquisite documentary. This is not it. It is more about his life than his music perhaps, but there is no insight into the complexities of this very unique life. Despite the impressive array of interviewees, none of whom are named, which is just annoying and confusing, so you never know who is talking, there is very little insight. How many times can you hear, "Michael is the greatest entertainer who has ever lived"? A bit more detail is entered into concerning the child molestation trials, but again, especially considering the more recent revelations, it is ultimately confounding. People say, "Michael is such a loving person, he would never do something like this," rather than presenting the evidence of what actually did or did not happen. This is very poor filmmaking. It basically consists of people saying uninteresting things that we have all heard before, interspersed with many still photographs shot in irritatingly novel ways, to make up for the lack of actual moving footage.

Amazing documentary about the biggest Icon ever. It goes to great detail of the false allegations he suffered in 93 and 03. The director did a great. Its very sad that such a kind soul was treated so freaking bad, which ultimately led to his death.

Really good documentary from start to finish They covered almost all aspect of his life. Very good interviews from those close to him and others. Really shows what he went and that he still kept being a good person even after being falsely accused. He never stopped caring about others.

This doc was made by friends and family. And it shows. Not 1 bad word about the man. MJ was messiah... for the fans a great doc but this is not the truth i think...

I never knew these facts. its really sad what he went through. those who falsely accused him should be ashamed of themselves. RIP Michael Jackson. I give this the highest score possible. Just incredible sad story. the world truly did not deserve him

This documentary does a good job debunking the false allegations against him. It does a really good job with the second allegation. But it could have gone more into detail into the first one. Like it did not show the secret taped audio conversation of the father talking about trying to frame Michael for money. But all in all. It was a great video with interviews of people who knew him. He was a fantastic kind human that we did not deserve. He will be missed. Rest in piece Michael Jackson. Long may you live.

Michael Jackson: The Life of an Icon