One Night In Miami Review - 8 Ups & 0 Downs

Trying to take iconic people and humanise them in film is like trying to wrestle the sea into submission, it will never work and you will have better success in just avoiding the whole situation. However, if you relent and allow them to be their public selves so that audiences recognise them as they were and then begin to let their humanity and tactile nature come out, you will have a winning story.

So gradually does the veil lift from these incredible men and who they really are underneath, that we feel we are getting to know them ourselves. It is a personal meeting, not a professional production of a publicist and agents. Which is why this was the only way that this film could have succeeded, by allowing us to see them as they were, not as we wanted them to be.

The actors, the director, and the screenwriter all coalesced incredibly in their mission of tactile reality and brought forward these icons as people, whilst letting their legend permeate the screen and show the audience just who they were inside and out.