Chadwick Boseman, Nelsan Ellis, Dan Aykroyd, Viola Davis, Lennie James, Fred Melamed, Jill Scott, Octavia Spencer, Nick Eversman, Tika Sumpter, James DuMont, Billy Slaughter, Ritchie Montgomery, Craig Robinson, Brandon Mychal Smith
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
Chadwick Boseman is terrific, but <em>'Get on Up'</em> is missing something that would make it a great biopic. I still very much enjoyed it, I always tend to find biographical films interesting - especially when I don't know too much about the person(s) in question, as is the case with James Brown here; I've always known of him and his major songs, but that's about it. Boseman leads strongly...