This review contains spoilers in as much as the film is based on a true story that it does not fully tell.
Many people watching this film will be younger than me (I am 63) and will not be from Britain,so their experience of the film will differ from mine.
My late brother and I were great music fans,teenagers in the 1970s and by 1976 Bob Marley was become famous in Britain,his 1976 live album was a big hit,as was the single from it No Women No Cry.
After 1976 Marley became more and more popular.
The film shows how his dramatic personal story and the Exodus album made him a world superstar.
As I said my brother and I were music fans,Marley fans we saw him at one of the 1977 London shows featured in the film.
So I was looking forward to seeing this film but I was a bit disappointed.
The number of family members involved in producing this film means you hardly see Marley the flawed human.
Even when he was alive the music press hinted he a tough self belief which meant people close to him sometimes suffered.
The film does not address the way that Marley was happy to shape his sound to reach as big an audience as possible.
Marley was a man of the people but he was also a man and his love life seems to have been complicated.
The film does not show what a huge star Marley was by his death,nor does it show how the vast majority of his fans ignored his religious messaging.
Many people watching this film will be younger than me (I am 63) and will not be from Britain,so their experience of the film will differ from mine.
My late brother and I were great music fans,teenagers in the 1970s and by 1976 Bob Marley was become famous in Britain,his 1976 live album was a big hit,as was the single from it No Women No Cry.
After 1976 Marley became more and more popular.
The film shows how his dramatic personal story and the Exodus album made him a world superstar.
As I said my brother and I were music fans,Marley fans we saw him at one of the 1977 London shows featured in the film.
So I was looking forward to seeing this film but I was a bit disappointed.
The number of family members involved in producing this film means you hardly see Marley the flawed human.
Even when he was alive the music press hinted he a tough self belief which meant people close to him sometimes suffered.
The film does not address the way that Marley was happy to shape his sound to reach as big an audience as possible.
Marley was a man of the people but he was also a man and his love life seems to have been complicated.
The film does not show what a huge star Marley was by his death,nor does it show how the vast majority of his fans ignored his religious messaging.