This is curtains, much sooner than Michael Jackson meant when he announced a series of comeback concerts cancelled by his sudden death: "This is the final curtain call." The rehearsal footage for that event, intended for Jackson's "personal library," has here been assembled not with journalistic purpose (so to put it) but rather eulogistic, a best-face scenario, essentially a sequence of planned song-and-dance numbers pieced together from different rehearsals, with different costumes within a single number. As Jackson himself murmurs at the end of the "Billie Jean" routine: "At least we get a feel of it." (Kenny Ortega, who directed the stage production, also directed the film.) The well-drilled dancing from the stick-thin star — and company — is unfailingly crisp, the sound is unfailingly not. One is left primarily with the impression of the amount of work that went into these preparations, and that thanks to the film did not go completely to waste. (2009) — Duncan Shepherd
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