The biopic covering the first half of the King of Pop’s rise to superstardom offers electrifying concert performances, true to life actors, and not much else. 

As the feature debut from directors Nicholas D. Johnson and Will Merrick - the editors of Searching, the film goes to town on inventive editing techniques and uses all the comforts of technology that we take for granted, twisting them into complete discomfort for a layer of tension that stays through almost the whole film.