Movie Details
Running Time: 112 Minutes
Status: Released
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Music
Review Summary
Death returned Michael Jackson’s humanity, and in a curious, tentative way so too does “Michael Jackson’s This Is It,” a rushed and ragged monument to the man, his work and the commercial interests of those he left behind. At once a greatest-hits compendium and a suggestive glance at what might have been, the movie — which had its premiere Tuesday and opened Wednesday on a staggering 18,000 screens worldwide — has been so nakedly designed to serve so many different agendas that it seemed unlikely anything would be left for Mr. Jackson’s fans beyond the sheer spectacle of such colossal posthumous exploitation. Yet something remains here, though it’s hard to know whether it’s the ghost or our love, perhaps both. — Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
