Michael Jackson was a lot of things, but genius wasn't one of them. I can think of a dozen other of his contemporaries who are more qualified. He was at the forefront of many things, and he knew how to generate a bit of turbulance. But Michael Jackson was no more a genius than Elvis was. That being said, This Is It was a little better than I thought it would be. I expected the film to lean too heavily on the dull children and ecology songs of his late career. We only had to deal with one (with its garish coda at the end of the film). The rest is a fine blend of stage footage and overdubbed music that leaves us wanting to see the final concert. In the end, this was a good way to end a long, but hardly prolific, career.