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In Theaters Now
- 2024
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 47 m
- 2024
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 47 m
Summary Bob Marley: One Love celebrates the life and music of an icon who inspired generations through his message of love and unity. On the big screen for the first time, discover Bob’s powerful story of overcoming adversity and the journey behind his revolutionary music.
Directed By: Reinaldo Marcus Green
In Theaters Now
- 2024
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 47 m
- 2024
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 47 m
Bob Marley: One Love
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4.8
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Summary Bob Marley: One Love celebrates the life and music of an icon who inspired generations through his message of love and unity. On the big screen for the first time, discover Bob’s powerful story of overcoming adversity and the journey behind his revolutionary music.
Directed By: Reinaldo Marcus Green
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 36 Critic Reviews
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11% Positive
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75% Mixed
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27 Reviews
14% Negative
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5 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 36 Critic Reviews
43
11% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
75% Mixed
27 Reviews
27 Reviews
14% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Bob Marley: One Love does not give a documentary’s worth of information and analysis into one of the 20th century’s most interesting, beloved performers. And yes, its approach is formulaic. But it celebrates Marley’s charisma and influence, and his music, which sounds as vital today as ever. Fair trade.
Bob Marley: One Love is a strange mixture of the authentic and the broad. Taking place in a perma-fug of ganja smoke, director Reinaldo Marcus Green’s (King Richard) intermittently engaging portrait of the reggae superstar is shot through with sincere intentions, but too often leans into the trite.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 106 User Ratings
4.8
37% Positive
39 Ratings
39 Ratings
30% Mixed
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
33% Negative
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 106 User Ratings
4.8
37% Positive
39 Ratings
39 Ratings
30% Mixed
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
33% Negative
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
Critics, stop giving people more reason to disregard your opinions. The smear campaign going on here is ridiculous. This movie was far from perfect, but to discard it like trash is wrong. Critics said “It reveals little about Marley” maybe because he was one of the most famous & influential artists of the 20th century. This is a movie everyone should watch whether you listen to his music or not.
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If the film is ambitious, it is also inert.
Though “One Love” drifts into increasingly conventional biopic scenes, its spirit remains fairly true to Marley — enough, at least, that you overlook some of its faults.
What becomes painfully clear is the fact that Bob Marley deserves a better biopic. Still, Lynch’s magnetic presence, and a heartstopping rendition of Redemption Song, almost justify the price of admission.
Marley, as played by Kingsley Ben-Adir, is presented as a centrifugal force in Jamaican art, culture and political thought, but the film also threatens to flatten him into just another tortured male genius.
It’s a biographical film where, to ask “why?” in regard to Marley’s sometimes obscurely-motivated actions would risk placing him in an ambiguous light. And so we instead trot through a series of highly manicured and stage-managed Wiki hit points and pause every few minutes for a musical interlude.
Powerful moving movie! It shows the life of the Prophet Bob Marley and the work he did for the Most High God. It includes Haile Selassie, the Lion of Judah and descendant of King David. A man all the western world tried to hide from history! It's a must see and also mentions how christ is black and not a european blue eyed white man as the european has tried to usurp.
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This film about the famous reggae singer/songwriter stars Kingsley Ben-Adir. It's not a straightforward biopic, because it's mostly set after his fame has been established. The story starts in Jamaica during a tumultuous civil war that was rife with violence and it explores his efforts to bring peace to his homeland. A few flashbacks to his formative years add a more biographical slant. There's also plenty of his music, in the soundtrack, in concerts and in the studio. Ben-Adir captures Marley's joy and charisma, while Lashana Lynch provides strong support as his wife. The Jamaican patois is sometimes so thick it's hard to understand, but they've made sure the dialogue is clear in pivotal exchanges. While the film is rich with Marley's music and a joyful performance by Ben-Adir, the dramatic conflicts seldom add much depth to the characterization. It's more a celebration of the man and his music.
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Não só de boa caracterização vive uma boa biografia. Embora Kingsley Ben-Adir esteja bem à vontade no papel, com trejeitos que lembram bastante o astro do reggae, o roteiro de "Bob Marley: One Love" pode até ser conciso, mas ainda assim não deixou de ser episódico. Veja-se, por exemplo, o atentado. Lá pelas tantas, é completamente esquecível, não mais marcante. E assim o filme vai, explorando muito pouco do ícone.
Bob Marley, nascido Robert Nesta Marley em 6 de fevereiro de 1945, foi um icônico músico jamaicano, compositor e líder do movimento reggae. Ele é amplamente considerado um dos maiores artistas musicais de todos os tempos e um ícone cultural global. Gosto de como o filme o torna global e local ao mesmo tempo (por mais que muito me incomode o uso do filtro laranjado para representar tudo que está a baixo geograficamente dos EUA).
Marley nasceu em Nine Mile, uma pequena vila na paróquia de Saint Ann, Jamaica. Ele começou sua carreira musical na década de 1960, inicialmente com o grupo vocal The Wailers, que mais **** evoluiu para Bob Marley & The Wailers. O filme, no entanto, não explora sua ascensão, e até certo ponto consegue se sair muito bem ao recortar a vida do cantor para quando já estava na iminência de um sucesso internacional com canções como "One Love", "No Woman, No Cry", "Redemption Song", "Stir It Up" e muitas outras, muito provocado pelo atentado que sofrera.
Talvez o filme não queira romantizar o evento, mas um acontecimento como esse merecia muito mais atenção e cuidado. Pessoas que foram atingidas (e aqui pessoas importantes para Bob) aprecem em cenas seguintes como se estivessem a se recuperar de uma gripe passageira.
Além de sua música influente, Marley também era conhecido por suas letras profundas que frequentemente abordavam questões sociais, políticas e espirituais, incluindo temas como a luta contra a opressão e a busca pela paz e pela igualdade. Sua música frequentemente transmitia uma mensagem de unidade, amor e esperança. Algo que me incomodou no filme também é que as tensões sociais e políticas do governo jamaicano foram tratados em manchetes e reportagens de TV, o que contribuiu para um clima muito menos tenso. É como se Bob apenas soubesse de algo, que teve impacto no atentado que sofrera sim, mas como ambos os acontecimentos são tratados com desleixo, tudo soa muito frio. E quando ele viaja, então, o clima fica pulverizado.
Bob Marley também foi um defensor do movimento rastafári, que incorpora elementos da cultura africana, e foi o que mais me agradou no longa. Menção a cortes de cabelo, à relação com as drogas, à liberdade, ao senso de comunidade, tudo é bem inserido, de forma meio espontânea e por isso o tom ficou super natural, sem aquele didatismo político característico.
Ainda assim, a obra é pouco inspirada, cabem às músicas transmitir alguma emoção genuína. É um filme bom, mas carece de uma paixão que o astro do reggae transbordava.
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Maybe too narrow, overall, as the story is really lacking here. The performances are good but the film is below par even for this oversaturated genre.
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