★★★★
I'm really not sure what I have to say about this. It's massively entertaining, Demme remains probably the best concert documentarian alive and Justin Timberlake comes across as one of the hardest-working entertainers you'd ever want to meet.
This is a filming of the last concert of a two-year Timberlake tour of him and his backup band, band and singers, and my god, this man knows how to hire people. it's a ridiculously tight group of performers for this last night in Vegas, all there to give the crowd a hell of show and lord if they don't. Sadly, this isn't every song performed (for me, that means no "Cry Me A River," which is a bummer) but it's a great representation of what a show by Timberlake is like.
One thing I especially liked is that Jonathan Demme, director of the greatest concert film ever in Stop Making Sense, doesn't try to recreate that here. This is a massively different beast. more a document of a great concert and a fun time than the odd beast that is SMS. Talking Heads and Timberlake are very different musical creatures and it's very nice to see Demme Timberlake as he should be treated instead of trying to make the same movie again.
It's a hell of a concert film and even if you're not particularly into Justin Timberlake as a musician, like me, you should really check it out.
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