Director Antoine Fuqua and screenwriter John Logan don’t exactly break the mold with Michael, nor do they stuff it with major revelations. But they tap into a vein of melancholy underlaying the stratospheric success that’s surprisingly affecting. The online mob will be sharpening their pitchforks given the movie’s failure to address the accusations of child sexual abuse that tarnished Michael Jackson’s legacy. But the filmmakers get around that by focusing on his early career, ending with the 1988 Bad World Tour concert in London, years before allegations first surfaced. The epilogue card reading “His story continues” does some heavy lifting.
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Whether it will continue in a second film remains an open question, though based on Michael, it seems safe to assume an eventual Part II would be unlikely to tackle the thornier issues head-on. Still, ignoring the scandal certainly hasn’t hurt the Broadway musical MJ, now in its
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