Critic Reviews
| 88 |
Chicago Tribune
For any of you who've ever daydreamed of playing hoops with Jordan, Michael Jordan to the Max is almost certainly the closest you'll ever get.
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| 88 |
New York Post
Just as spectacular as seeing the view from Everest or other natural wonders caught by the IMAX technology.
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| 80 |
Los Angeles Times
Made with such verve and clarity that you don't have to be a basketball fan to enjoy it.
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| 75 |
Charlotte Observer
It's hardly a balanced biography: There's no mention of Jordan's gambling problems or connections with Nike, whose factories overseas were criticized for underpaying workers and treating them badly.
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| 75 |
Miami Herald
What makes this documentary worth seeing is the sensational courtside footage taken with IMAX cameras, which bring a whole new way of seeing the game to fans who don't get to sit in Jack Nicholson's section.
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| 70 |
Time
An adoring tone and the familiar slo-mo, wide-angle baskebatics.
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| 67 |
Entertainment Weekly
A highly conventional 2-D infomercial.
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| 63 |
New York Daily News
Denene Millner
We get zilch on what kind of human being he is.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Monotonous.
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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Essentially just a promotional film for Jordan as a product. It plays like a commercial for itself.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
There's not much substantive food for thought.
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| 50 |
The New York Times
The format and the purposeful blandness of the script make Jordan seem remote, more icon than human being.
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| 40 |
Variety
Arguably the finest athlete in living memory deserves better than Michael Jordan to the Max, an honorific but unmoving portrait of the Chicago Bulls' No. 23.
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| 30 |
Chicago Reader
Unlike Michael Jordan, this 45-minute large-format movie demonstrates mostly unrealized potential.
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| 30 |
LA Weekly
David Davis
Ultimately, it's as vapid as (Michael Jordan's) perfume and as disposable as a pair of his Hanes.
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