Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Chadwick Boseman's acting, in my opinion, was excellent. I really, really, can't believe or understand why he and this movie didn't win an Academy Award. Maybe because I tend to lean more toward natural and believable acting roles than those of generally expected, predictable roles. All the actors were so good and I just watched it again on TV (CTRC) and still enjoyed it as if I was watching it for the first time. That's when you know a movie is good...that's the measuring tool. Plus James Brown's life was an interesting one, no doubt. He rose through the ashes and made something of himself, almost as if, it was just plain destiny. Even though he was treated so bad as a child, it made him the man he became and nobody can take that away...nobody.

A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history. Get on Up is a film that i truly respect not just as a biography about a very talented singer but also packs one strong performance Chadwick Boseman, Viola Davis, Dan Aykroyd and Lennie James. It shows James Brown's life as it truly was with both the good side and the bad side with very interesting characters, pacing and some great songs playing in the background and it's really sad to see the film have such a low score here on IMDb with a 6.9 this definitely deserves at least a 7.7 or a 7.9 everyone did one hell of a job and gave some amazing performances.

Chadwick Boseman might not be perfect but hell, James Brown was unique so who could ever recapture his essence? His dance moves are on the button and only once does his strut look more like Prince than JB. The storyline may not be as fleshed out as 'Ray' (one or two clichés) but the soundtrack is great and the classic concerts faithfully recreated. We learn (like we didn't already know) that JB was a flawed human being but we see the torments of his early life so when he abuses his partners and cheats his musicians we are almost (I say almost) sympathetic. In the end he was one of the world's greatest showmen and band leaders, but finally pushed his band to breaking point and I applaud them for going solo (and making some stupendous records without him in the various JBs/Maceo/Wesley incarnations)

"Get on Up" didn't really set the box office on fire when it was released to theaters, and I think I have some idea as to why. Before I get into that, I should point out that it's far from the worst biopic ever made by Hollywood. Actor Chadwick Boseman does give a very good performance as James Brown, successfully convincing the audience that the Godfather of Soul had both a good side and a much darker side. Some credit for that also has to go to the script, which does not whitewash the legend's sometimes questionable behavior; the first real scene of the movie depicts the event that landed Brown in jail in 1988. And the movie, despite running over two hours long, is never boring; every scene is interesting in one aspect or another. And of course, there is the music, which is of course wonderful to hear.Yet despite what I wrote above, at the end of the movie I felt somewhat unsatisfied. The movie doesn't go into depth with Brown in some key aspects. We learn almost nothing about his marriage and his children, his jump into sudden fame and fortune is never really depicted (the movie suddenly jumps ahead several years!), his relationship with Aykroyd's character isn't given that much more depth, his problems with the taxman are mentioned in one scene and then it NEVER mentioned again, and his 1988 arrest is shown but it's never detailed what exactly happened afterwards. It's also confusing that the organization of scenes (the movie doesn't always play in order) doesn't make sense, like when Brown is suddenly reunited with his long absent mother.So what do we have here? Well, it's a movie that will appeal to some people, but not all. If you sit down to watch the movie simply to be entertained, you may find it accomplishes that. But if you really want to learn about the Godfather of Soul and what shaped him and made him tick, you would probably be better reading a biography of the man.