Bob Marley: One Love [2024] – Kingsley Ben-Adir, Lashana Lynch, James Norton

Bob Marley: One Love is a good movie that could have been much better with minor adjustments. Kingsley Ben-Adir is perfection.

Starring Ben-Adir, Lashana Lynch, and James Norton, the movie excels when focusing on Marley’s struggles. However, those scenes are far and few.

Instead of choosing to focus on one path: personal, or music, this movie commits the mistake of trying to balance both, while ignoring the essences of both sides.

Unlike Whitney Houston‘s movie, One Love barely scratches the surface of what made Marley an icon. Every human is a multi-dimensional group of experiences and traumas. However, the titular character is not complex here. He’s really very heroic and very admirable… but the issue with that is, that the feature film has a blandness at its heart that I actually don’t think was part of the story.

Halfway through the movie, I was like: cool. Now can we get to the concert part? Sadly, you get there in the last 10 minutes and it’s a complete disappointment. It feels like the production ran out of cash and yet still decided to try to pull a huge concert scene. No thanks.

Should You Watch It?

This may not be the ultimate Marley narrative, but this project respectfully keeps his memory and mission alive. It’s not bad. It’s just boring and bland.

Where Can I Watch It?

You can stream Bob Marley: One Love exclusively on Paramount+.