Bob Marley One Love (2024)
Directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green
Screenplay by Terence Winter, Frank E. Flowers, Zach Raylin, Reinaldo Marcus Green
Starring Kingsley Ben-Adir, Lashana Lynch, James Norton
Release Date February 14th, 2024
Published May 30th, 2024
You can tell that Bob Marley: One Love has four different credited screenwriters. The film has the chaotic feel of too many cooks in the kitchen. That's not to say that this is a bad movie, as music industry biopics go, this is among the better ones. Rather, it's just an observation of the style and tone of the movie which seems to shift gears oddly. You can sense a herky jerky quality of visions for the story changing and merging, and ideas not entirely cohering. The chaos comes however, in a haze of marijuana smoke and good vibes that prove to a saving grace.
Bob Marley: One Love stars Kingsley Ben-Adir as musician, radical, and revolutionary, Bob Marley. A star beloved around the world, Marley once wielded so much power that warring factions of Jamaica's would be leaders, vied for his attention, alternately threatening and offering to protect Marley from harm. All the while, Marley asks for none of this responsibility, accepting the kind offers from both sides while naively hoping that he can bring the two sides together by the sheer force of good vibes. Bob Marley: One Love portrays the star as a man overwhelmed by wielding far more power than he deserves and a desperate ache for peace for himself and the people who have raised him to such a position of power in his home country.
Find my full length review at Beat.Media, linked here.
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