Not Up to It

Rating: 7/10 (26 February 2017)

When there's genius in the acting, the acting is above the script. Here, the acting was at the script, certainly not above it. The singing and dancing looked practiced, perhaps artful, but not talented and certainly not genius. If you want to watch talent and genius, watch some Cab Calloway, Fred and Ginger, etc. There were some good themes that grabbed me, but the themes that grabbed me could have been in any movie genre. Simply not an implementation of the genre that satisfied the goal. This is the Ben Hur remake of the classic music genre and does not deserve record-breaking award nominations.