Roger Ebert Gives Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” A 4 Star Review!

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Roger Ebert Gives Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” A 4 Star Review!

(Roger Ebert | Chicago Sun-Times) “This Is it,” Michael Jackson told his fans in London, announcing his forthcoming concert tour. “This is the final curtain call.” The curtain fell sooner than expected. What is left is this extraordinary documentary, nothing at all like what I was expecting to see. Here is not a sick and drugged man forcing himself through grueling rehearsals, but a spirit embodied by music. Michael Jackson was something else.

The film has been assembled from rehearsals from April through June 2009 for a concert tour scheduled for this summer. The footage was “captured by a few cameras,” an opening screen tells us, but they were professional high-def cameras and the sound track is full-range stereo. The result is one of the most revealing music documentaries I’ve seen…

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