Yahoo Movies Bob Marley: One Love lands poor Rotten Tomatoes rating
Bob Marley: One Love has landed a poor rating on Rotten Tomatoes following its first reviews.
The new biopic stars Marvel's Kingsley Ben-Adir as the reggae icon, following his rise to fame in the 1970s.
However, the movie hasn't attracted the most glowing reviews, currently sitting on a disappointing 39% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.
Related: One Love's Kingsley Ben-Adir wanted to show "another side" to Bob Marley
While Ben-Adir's performance has been largely praised, many critics have suggested One Love is a fairly by-the-numbers biopic that doesn't go too deep.
Here's what reviewers have been saying:
Empire
"A by-the-numbers biography, this sheds little new light on an icon but features a soaring performance from Kingsley Ben-Adir."
The Daily Telegraph
"In a richer or more rousing film, the 37-year-old’s work here might have been talked about for awards. In this one, it’s reason enough to watch."
The Independent
"With Bob Marley: One Love, Hollywood has proven once again that even the most radical of lives can be watered down into a conventional biopic. Here is an unfalteringly respectful film, made with the full cooperation of the reggae icon’s family, that argues for its subject’s genius without embodying it. It does dodge some of the genre’s pitfalls, but careens mindlessly into others."
The Guardian
"This is a vacuum-sealed package of fan-orthodoxy that never takes off. The euphoria and uplift aren’t there."
Variety
"The point of the new biopic mode was to reveal totemic figures in a more complex way. One Love flirts with complexity but slides into the banality of hero worship."
Screen International
"Surely, One Love wants to give this titanic figure more dimensions, showing how his art was forged in pain, bringing inspiration and respite for so many listeners. But thanks to narrative short cuts and a lack of probing curiosity, the film lionises rather than illuminates."
Bob Marley: One Love is out now in cinemas.
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