Michael (2026)★ 7.6/10

Being a fan of Michael Jackson is complicated. You have the fans who adore his music despite the controversy, and the fans who adore his music but not him as a person. MICHAEL is a musical biopic about the man the myth the legend himself. He is played by his nephew Jaafar Jackson, who embodies his childlike sense of wonder, and his thrilling dance moves. It truly feels like Michael was revived. Taking place between 1966 and 1988, this movie portrays the rise of Michael as he puts out hit after hit, despite his domineering and controlling father (Colman Domingo), earning the title of the King of Pop. This tenuous father-son dynamic becomes the focal point of the entire movie. This is a biopic that falls prey to the trope of being surface-level, just going through the motions, not stopping to delve deeper into who Michael was, relying on his music to keep the audience entertained. To its credit, the movie does just that. The concert sequences are spot-on, both visually and stylistically. The rest of the Jackson family is in this, except for Janet, who declined to be involved. The Jackson Five have quite a bit of screen time, but they barely have any lines at all. They do a good job depicting his loneliness, like how he calls his exotic pets his friends. This is more like a concert film, so sanitized and whitewashed, hyper-focused on all of the highs of Michael’s life, with only a couple of lows. This movie doesn’t say anything new about its subject, just headlines and highlight reels. I did enjoy the music and concert scenes, but that can’t be all you have in a biopic. As a concert experience, this is fantastic. As a movie, I needed more depth. Overall, MICHAEL is a movie obviously made and paid for by the Jackson estate, speeding through MJ’s rise to stardom. I’m curious how they will handle it if they get the legal green light to release the sequel. Yes, I am still exhausted from all of the musical biopics.

It is a fairly simple movie, I did like the music in it, as is expected, however, the thing I didn't like is how compressed it all felt, it all felt like it was so easy to attain such popularity, like it all just came at once. The main conflict, which I do not really believe is a spoiler, between Michael and his father, feels REALLY dragged out, I get it is central, but it also should not feel pointless, which it kind of does.

very good

It just falls flat.
While the cinematography, production design, attention to detail and general style of “Michael” give the film a nice boost. It is just a shame to see how scared the movie is of its own source material, never diving deep enough to say something that matters. For this it only gets 6/10

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Maja padam

Best biopic I have ever seen the acting and everything is best

esta buena

gran pelicula

Gracias