Get On Up

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Another music biopic. And while it has much of the same tropes as every other music biopic it has fun telling it in a funky way. James Brown directly addresses the audience from time to time, jumping in and out of scenes and narration as well as constantly jumping back and forth in timelines in the middle of scenes, filling out backstory as it's needed. It keeps the film moving and never feels like there's a big chunk of exposition, or this is the sad part now, or this is when he turns it around and it all comes together.

I don't know much about the man's life but for sure it feels like while they cover a lot of ground they skip over large chunks as well. But while they don't make him a monster, they don't shy away from showing much of his darker side.

This wasn't particularly one I was looking forward to and while it didn't blow me away it certainly defied a lot of my expectations in how it was made, so that's great.