If you've read anything negative about Michael's abilities in certain critic reviews of This Is It, clear your mind...

All the hubub about this film being exploitation or a cash in, clear your mind...

Would he have wanted us to see rehearsal?...no, but the circumstances are extraordinary....it is only right that we see what the man had planned and worked so hard to acheive...

Point blank with no hyperbole, what he had planned would have gone down in history....

What This Is It offer us is the chance to see a true master at work...

?uestlove and D'Angelo coined the term "Yoda" as a notation of musical mastery...

Michael is not just a Yoda, he IS Yoda...

The film has a few levels...on one level, we see Michael crafting his vision and bringing it to life...we also see his complete mastery of his talents...but most interesting to me, was seeing Michael teach the babies...

his method of teaching was by example and with gentle, intuitive, yet firm coaching...

we see a side that true MJ fans knew but the public did not...and that's MJ as a firm taskmaster...the boss...not the simpleton dolt portrayed in VH1's god awful biopic Man In The Mirror...

As a performer, I'm gonna go ahead and put it out there....Mike had stepped his game up...He went out at his peak...vocally and physically..

90's MJ was easily bested by This Is It MJ...he was coming back stronger than when he left....

what we see in these rehearsals is MJ holding himself back...he does the most intricate shit at lightning speed in the blink of an eye as if its nothing...the crew waits for the moments when he cant help himself and he cuts loose...the band makes it a game to try to sneak up on him and coax these moments out of him...

one memorable scene is when he catches on to the game...

he already has the show down in his mind, he is just waiting for everyone else (dancers, band, crew) to catch up to his vision...

he does not break a sweat...he only breathes hard once, after doing a jumping routine....when the band misses his cues, they tell him that they dont have to do the jumping again....he insists on doing it again...

if you pay attn to his physicality in the non musical moments, you see that he cant sit still....he is bristling with energy...

alot of the interest in this film is morbid....people are watching is looking for clues of drug abuse or ill health, or even old age....sorry, its not there...

even my boy Ebert is wondering how Mike could be doped up and be as sharp as he was during these rehearsals....

People, these are the facts:

when Michael Jackson died, the only drugs in his system were the ones given to him by Dr. Murray in the hours before his death...

he was using propofol and anti anxiety drugs to help him sleep...

Michael Jackson's death was not the end result of downward spiral as the public would like to believe...

the facts that have emerged inform us, the only reason why Michael Jackson is not tearing down the 02 Arena right now is because Dr. Conrad Murray was criminally negligent. He administered Profofol and left MJ for approx 47 mins, which is analogous to pulling the plug.

but away from that, this is a film that desrves to be seen...

It is more than fitting to honor his legacy...it only reinforces the fact that Michael Jackson is the the greatest entertainer ever to live.

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