Tag: Biopic

Bob Marley: One Love

2024   Paramount Pictures

Rated:  PG-13

Length:  1 hr 47min

True Story ~ Music ~ Drama

Directed By:  Reinaldo Marcus Green

Starring:  Kingsley Ben-Adir, Lashana Lynch, and James Norton.

“One Love, one heart, one destiny.”

So before you read this there are several things you need to know about the guy reviewing this movie:

  1.  I am a huge Bob Marley fan.
  2.  I have read several books on his life and music.
  3.  I am a Musician, guitar player, composer and songwriter.

I am not sure that my review is going to be completely un-biased. Having said that this movie is but a glimpse into Bob Marley’s Life, Music, Beliefs and Religion. A very good glimpse in my opinion but you couldn’t possibly encapsulate Bob Marley’s life story into a couple of hours.

It focuses on the latter period of his life with brief glimpses of the past moments in his history that led to the events portrayed. It also focuses on the depth and closeness of his relationship with his wife Rita Marley.

One of the highlights for me being a musician was the scene in London where members of “The Wailers” are playing the soundtrack album to “Exodus” (A 1960 movie) when Bob hears it and he and Rita go downstairs to hear what’s going on. Bob is working on a song called Exodus and the band members start messing around with a groove and you can see and hear the song come to life. It is a beautiful thing to witness the creation of a song and that scene was incredible to me.

One of the other things I found interesting as a musician and guitar player was realizing that Bob Marley was more of a rhythm guitar player and singer, and that Peter Tosh, Al Anderson, Junior Marvin and Donald Kinsey played the lead guitar roles in the band at different time periods.

Kingsley Ben-Adir, Lashana Lynch, James Norton and the rest of the cast did a terrific job of portraying their characters. If you don’t really know much about Bob Marley or have never heard of him, I highly recommend this movie as an introduction. Watch the movie then listen to  Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley and The Wailers. It is one of my favorite albums.

So that about wraps it up.

I absolutely loved it, yes I will watch it again and I highly recommend it.

Jah Man!

Two Thumbs up!