Director: Peter Jackson, Michael Lindsay-Hogg. 7 hrs 48 min. Documentary.
- Yes, to slog through an 8-hour (no less) documentary, you need to be a Beatles fan. There's no way you can see this as a good use of your time if you're not. But if you are ... you will be rewarded. In addition to merely watching how Paul, John, George and Ringo (and their crew, and significant others) worked and lived through the ups and downs of the few weeks leading up to the famous Get Back rooftop performance, there are some precious moments that suddenly emerge out of the monotony, such as the songs "Get Back" and "Octopus Garden" being created for the first time, right before your eyes. And then during the final hour you watch the rooftop performance itself, and similar to how in long movies such as The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly or Das Boot, the longer the movie, the more satisfying the ending, that concert will put you in a trance, and you think: Oh, so that's how a masterpiece is made. The concert would not have been as powerful, if this was a short 90-minute documentary.
MoGo's rating: 8/10
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