Chris Wasser

And that should be a way of telling audiences before they've even watched a single second of this thing that we're only going to get the good bits, that it feels like someone's gone through the Wikipedia entry from Michael Jackson and said, let's take all of the good stuff.

Let's take all of the, oh, that bit about, you know, that record breaking live concert that he played.

Let's film that bit.

Let's ignore all of the bad stuff again, which we'll come back to.

And that's the kind of film that will give audiences.

And that's the kind of film that it is.

I mean, when I saw Melania earlier this year, Brett Ratner's just mind-numbing documentary about the First Lady of the United States.

I thought, here is a cinematic puff piece to defeat all others.

I thought that anyway.

And then along came Michael.

If I can give any credit to Michael, which was, it has a good team behind it.

Directed by Anton Foucault, who gave us Training Day.

Written by John Logan, who co-wrote Gladiator.

So there is a talented team there.

Maybe a team that haven't had a hit in a while, but never mind that.

There's also a competent cast.

Coleman Domingo is in this playing Joe Jackson, Michael Jackson's father.

And I think a lot of people defending the film and saying that it's awards worthy or don't believe the reviews, they're focusing on Jafar Jackson's performance.

What I thought of Jafar Jackson's performance is that it's a fabulous impersonation of his uncle.

He is Michael Jackson's real-life nephew, and he takes him off very, very well.