There are two kinds of people that will watch this movie.  There will be the ones that will hate it and have already written him off as a child molester, no matter what amount of physical evidence presented itself.  These are the people that hate him, hate what he stands for, but still find themselves going to the movie in order to gain some sort of new information or closure on the issue.  Then there are the people that will love it.  These are the people that miss him and what he brought to the entertainment industy throughout his nearly 50 year career.

  This Is It, is a documentary on the rehearsal process of his farewell tour leading up to his last days.  His tour, the "This Is It" tour was supposed to pull out all the stops.  It was to give the world something they had never seen before.  It was to say his final farewell and gain an insurmountable place in performance lore forever.  If only this documentary was as ambitious as Michael Jackson.

  Now this isn't director Kenny Ortega's fault.  There was only a certain amount of footage that was shot and you can't make a masterpiece out of the limited pieces of a whole. However, it makes me wonder if this should have even been attempted in the first place.

  The doc takes us through weeks and weeks of rehearsals that basically revisits his whole career.  All the hits are there which will please most people, but for myself personally, I was looking for something more.  The only reason I saw this film was in the hope that I would witness something new.  I wanted to see what the world had never seen before and barring some revealing footage which didn't make the final cut, there simply was nothing groundbreaking here.

  In fact, the most impressive thing about this film was that at age 50, Michael Jackson can still move like he does.  A true performer sure, but part of me wonders if the cameras were turned off for the "new" material.  Perhaps that is just my final wish.  Perhaps it is something that would give me closure to this whole media-crazed situation.

  Perhaps it is just a hope that the magic I grew up with was still there.  In the last 10 years, like him or not, you can't deny that Michael Jackson has become the underdog.  I like a good underdog story, especially when I know the underdog can be at the top of the world.  Perhaps I am just after something that is not there.  Perhaps the magic was just gone.

  But then again...perhaps is wasn't.  The lore will live on in not knowing.