The singing, music and dancing is worth the price of admission alone. The acting was incredible, yet... one has to wonder: Did a man who went from rags to riches and achieved fame that few only dream about not have any happiness in his life at all? Maybe he didn't. I would think that he did. If so, the movie didn't show it. The movie chose to focus on all the barriers and antagonism in Brown's life and ignore what was really in his heart. You never got a feel for the man under the surface, the man who loved music, who worked his dance steps, who learned to sing, the inner man who made himself who he was. The movie made very sure that you knew Brown was a relentless businessman and not kind to his band members, not to the women in his life either. Fine. But was there not a beating heart in their somewhere? For the most part, the movie choose to concentrate more on sensationalism than substance. Yet all that is easily forgiven just to see him dance and sing.
