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If you've seen 'Ray', 'Walk the Line', 'Temptations', 'Cadillac Records', 'The Buddy Holly Story', even, you'll know what to expect - Chad Boseman admirably does the pop icon impersonation honours as James Brown, with a few cameo impersonations of Bobby Bird, Little Richard, the Rolling Stones, etc, etc, and you get your money's worth of period recreation, and harrowing recreations of terrible racial/spousal/child abuse which were normal for the times (WWII-late 50's). Dan Aykroyd doesn't work for me at all, and the narrative is choppy to say the least. One day they'll do one about Mick Jagger, and it'll be even more vapid.
It's OK. Not as good as the four music biopics mentioned above, but better than most country music movies (bar Altman's 'Nashville'). Watch for it on a free movie channel in a year or three. You're still better off just listening to JB's music. And dancing to it. Get up offa that thing, huh?
score 4/10
justincward 20 November 2014
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