Bob Marley One Love evaluate – Fearless performing is let down by a toothless script

In director Reinaldo Marcus Green’s reverential biopic of Bob Marley, the reggae singer travels to late Nineteen Seventies’ London along with his entourage to start work on a brand new album. “I wanna make a record that can shake up the place,” he vows, having just lately survived an assassination try in Kingston, Jamaica.

Bob Marley: One Love doesn’t shake up the place. Produced in partnership with the singer’s household, Green’s well mannered and standard portrait of a trailblazing artist slips on a pair of child gloves to recreate a fertile interval when Bob Marley and the Wailers recorded the LP Exodus and captured the peace-loving spirit of the period with the track Three Little Birds and its infectious refrain, “Don’t worry about a thing, Cause every little thing gonna be alright.”

Fans of Marley don’t want to fret about Kingsley Ben-Adir’s fearless portrayal of their musical hero. With a full head of cascading dreadlocks and thick Jamaican patois, the London born actor vanishes utterly inside his charismatic showman throughout electrifying live performance performances.

The script shortchanges Lashana Lynch as Marley’s steadfast partner, who protests: “I have to be a wife and a soldier.”

If Green’s image harnessed a few of that preventing spirit, we’d be jamming.

Bob Marley: One Love is out now in cinemas