Title - Bob Marley: One Love
Production - Paramount Pictures, Plan B Entertainment, State Street Pictures, Tuff Gong Pictures
Starring - Kingsley Ben-Adir, Lashana Lynch, James Norton, Tosin Cole, Umi Myers, Anthony Welsh, Nia Ashi, Aston Barrett Jr., Anna-Share Blake, Gawaine Campbell, Naomi Cowan, Alexx A-Game
Writer - Terence Winter, Frank E. Flowers, Zach Baylin
Director - Reinaldo Marcus Green
Release - 14 February 2024
Somehow this movie just didn't work as well as it should for me. It was well shot, well acted; but the way the story was stitched together just didn't do it for me.
Every time the movie jumped into the past, I never could figure out what that scene was for. It didn't really helped tell the story of the present, and sometimes it was just a brief scene that felt so random.
Maybe it was the language barrier, I couldn't say for sure. It was, in fact, hard to understand because it wasn't exactly English. Plus there's a whole cultural side of things that I was never aware of in the first place, and watching this I was just trying to piece things together.
The movie progression didn't help. For instance, the conflict between Bob Marley - not surprisingly that Kingsley Ben-Adir is still in conversations for next year's Academy Award nomination - and Lashana Lynch's Rita Marley came all of a sudden. I never had an inkling that there was any conflict from the beginning right up until they were at each other's throat at a random party.
Also a lot of scenes had dialogue that didn't last very long. This was very surprising because the script was written by an Academy Award nominated writer in Terence Winter. Every time this happens onscreen, it gives me very little confidence in the movie because I am unable to marinate in the scene when it comes and goes in less than a minute.
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