Have lot of work to do and I'm having lack of sleep, yet I put off everything aside to watch this movie. What made it special? It runs only for 2 weeks and I do not want to miss the final curtain call which the world is witnessing. I'm not huge fan of Michael Jackson (MJ) yet I watched this movie because it's him, he inspires people to inspire others.

I have not seen any MJs footages or interviews. I know him for the song I have heard, for his fame and of course, the mysteries. This movie took me closer to know MJ, who turns out to be completely different and more than I thought he is.

I have not even seen any MJ's official music videos and if the moviegoers haven't either, they will find the "Earth Song" is the most touching part in the movie. The video they shot for it was beautiful and so does the song! It showed MJ cares about the planet Earth and it's the reason he wrote the song. By the way, if he's alive, I think he would go through hard time watching what's happening not only in his life but the natures too.

I love the "Smooth Criminal" part of the movie, it's the best one. Actually, besides Thriller, it's the only song I have in my playlist. Once I got back from watching the movie, I looked for MJ CD's online. After scrolling through one website for his complete discography, I have decided going to get his CD entitled King of Pop, which contains the studio version of the songs in the rehearsal. Now, that goes to the current wish list, hehe.

"This Is It" is the concert which had marvelous rehearsal and masterpiece music, yet it's the concert never happen. It's how Sony described the rehearsal footage and bought it for 60 million dollars. Out of that, came this big screen musical movie, edited from 100 hours of the whole set. The concert suppose to go live at London's O2 Arena.

Before the movie got released formally, premiers has been held on selected locations around the globe. The best premier was in Los Angeles, CA. The reason was because there was Jennifer Lopez, Will Smith, Paula Abdul, Ashley Tisdale (I'm not High School Musical fan! Though it has the same director) and more others. Two of the best people there was Jennifer Love Hewitt with Jamie Kennedy, I saw the photos showing them wearing MJ T-Shirts. The Los Angeles premier was held on Oct 27, 2009. I watched the movie here at local cinema in Malaysia, on Oct 29. In London, Westlife attend the British premier.

It's not only MJ caught the audience attention in this movie. It's the whole crew involved in the rehearsal. They were all perfectionist, especially the male and female guitarist. If you had them in one rock band, you can surely blast off. =D

By the way, the female guitarist was hot and incredible! Her name is Orianthi Panagaris and she's Greek-Australian guitarist. She even has her own songs, quite nice. Together with the other crew, they sang during MJ's memorial. It was beautiful and can be watched in YouTube.

The first thing I hate in this movie is MJ's collection of wardrobe. There's too much blinking stuff and it's all made specially for MJ? Oh it's really annonying to see those stuff. The second thing was, certain footages are not in good quality. It's still acceptable because they were not meant for movie filming.

Despite all that MJ's gone through in his life including aging, he still sang well and danced like he always does. His performance always remarkable, it's why people love to watch him.

Hmm, at least I'm glad MJ had the chance to spent time around people who loves and cares about him (the crews) before he was gone. Those people respect MJ and their life became so meaningful for them, for being able to work together with MJ on the stage. They are like one family and live by Love. Exactly the way MJ wanted. :)

MJ left the world in June 25. Since then, he has made 90 million dollars. Higher than Elvis Presley, who made 55 million dollars since he passed away.

Rating: 6/10

Love lasts forever. - Michael Jackson