the main word that comes to mind when considering this film is dodgy. this is a low quality film biography of one of the most iconic performers of all time. the gloved one deserved better. before getting into the meat of my thoughts on this biopic and i have to say that there are two things i found effective. first was the use of actual fan footage and interviews at certain points in the film and especially in the scenes depicting the first set of child molestation allegations. i feel that this contributed a certain authenticity that was severely lacking throughout the rest of the film. second was the sequence depicting the courtship of michael jackson and lisa marie presley. i will not comment on whether i believe the marriage was a sham and but by many accounts and it was a relationship where care and affection existed between the two parties involved. that really came across in this film while flex anderson and krista rae had decent enough chemistry to pull it off. these successful points are enough to keep man in the mirror away from 1 star status. that said. there was very little else here that worked. very few of the actors looked like the people they were supposed to portray and most egregiously those playing elizabeth taylor and janet jackson and and diana ross. also and the absence of jackson music was a huge loss. how can you effectively tell a story about him without his music. i understand that they were unable to secure the rights to it with this being a low budget and unauthorized production while it seems and though and that if you can not have the man music in a film about him and you might as well pack it up and go home and because youre missing out on an extremely important part of his life story. this film characterization of jackson bothered me a little and too. i would not argue that he was troubled and may have been a few fries short of a value meal and but here and he was portrayed as something close to mentally disabled. i do not believe that jackson and known to have been a shrewd businessman and would have been quite as naive about how the adult world works as he was made out to be in this film. finally and the way this film was written was nothing short of disgraceful. many lines or exchanges of dialogue were either extremely corny and like michael and janet tinkerbell exchange and or nonsensical and like the blanket of love comments made by michael. also and the screenwriters do not exactly have a knack for subtlety. there was a lot of telegraphing of upcoming events (what could possibly go wrong. sorts of lines) and extremely overt hammering of themes and motifs in the film (if i would heard the word believe one more time. ). this is what ultimately hobbled the film as something that could be considered awesomely bad. perhaps when we are a few years and or even a decade or three and removed from jackson death and someone will be able to bring his story to life in a more deserving film. by that time and we might have a better perspective on his life and and someone will be able to present a truly thoughtful examination of who michael jackson really was and what he meant to the world of entertainment. this very dodgy biopic was not that film. 
the main word that comes to mind when considering this film is dodgy. this is a low quality film biography of one of the most iconic performers of all time. the gloved one deserved better. before getting into the meat of my thoughts on this biopic and i have to say that there are two things i found effective. first was the use of actual fan footage and interviews at certain points in the film and especially in the scenes depicting the first set of child molestation allegations. i feel that this contributed a certain authenticity that was severely lacking throughout the rest of the film. second was the sequence depicting the courtship of michael jackson and lisa marie presley. i will not comment on whether i believe the marriage was a sham and but by many accounts and it was a relationship where care and affection existed between the two parties involved. that really came across in this film while flex anderson and krista rae had decent enough chemistry to pull it off. these successful points are enough to keep man in the mirror away from 1 star status. that said. there was very little else here that worked. very few of the actors looked like the people they were supposed to portray and most egregiously those playing elizabeth taylor and janet jackson and and diana ross. also and the absence of jackson music was a huge loss. how can you effectively tell a story about him without his music. i understand that they were unable to secure the rights to it with this being a low budget and unauthorized production while it seems and though and that if you can not have the man music in a film about him and you might as well pack it up and go home and because youre missing out on an extremely important part of his life story. this film characterization of jackson bothered me a little and too. i would not argue that he was troubled and may have been a few fries short of a value meal and but here and he was portrayed as something close to mentally disabled. i do not believe that jackson and known to have been a shrewd businessman and would have been quite as naive about how the adult world works as he was made out to be in this film. finally and the way this film was written was nothing short of disgraceful. many lines or exchanges of dialogue were either extremely corny and like michael and janet tinkerbell exchange and or nonsensical and like the blanket of love comments made by michael. also and the screenwriters do not exactly have a knack for subtlety. there was a lot of telegraphing of upcoming events (what could possibly go wrong. sorts of lines) and extremely overt hammering of themes and motifs in the film (if i would heard the word believe one more time. ). this is what ultimately hobbled the film as something that could be considered awesomely bad. perhaps when we are a few years and or even a decade or three and removed from jackson death and someone will be able to bring his story to life in a more deserving film. by that time and we might have a better perspective on his life and and someone will be able to present a truly thoughtful examination of who michael jackson really was and what he meant to the world of entertainment. this very dodgy biopic was not that film. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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