That Was It

Ask anyone close to me, I like Michael Jackson the way I like ice cream: understanding and appreciating the appeal, but just fanatical crazy over him the way others are. However indifferent I am to his career though, I acknowledge just how pivotal he was to the music world at large.

This Is It gave raw pieces of MJ's never-seen performance. The movie begins with heartfelt accounts by his dancers who are interviewed just after they found out they will be a back up dancer. Then you a lot of footage of fanfare. For the remainder of the film, you meet a few more key people to the anticipated performance, and watch their interaction with the King of Pop, and a lot of amazing dancing, elaborate dance sets, and pyrotechnics.

The footage was obviously not meant to be made into a movie. Edits were limited to maybe a few cuts here and there, with some split screens, and older video montages. In my opinion, the movie was sloppily put together with no great wrap up of the film nor any tie-in back to the dancers we started off with. I was disappointed with the ending.

Had it not been for the awe-inspired performances I saw, I would've been really disappointed by the mediocrity of it all.

Even so, for the King of Pop's honor, his legacy should've been a bit more sophisticated than that. That was it! Of course, if you're already a die-hard fan, you won't care about the sloppy-edited movie, you'll just love seeing him just before he left us.

I'll rarely say this, but, even though I thought it could be better, you should still go see it because this truly is it.