Sidney Poitier was a great actor and a great man, so I was very much looking forward to this movie, especially given some very positive reviews.
The documentary 'Sidney' is fascinating when Poitier is on screen, being interviewed for this project or in the extensive archive footage.
However it is intensely irritating when some random celebrity comes on screen to tell us what we've just heard, or explain the obvious.
I don't mind the views and anecdotes from his family or people who actually knew him, but there were too many unnecessary talking heads delivering exposition that had obviously been scripted by the production.
The documentary 'Sidney' is fascinating when Poitier is on screen, being interviewed for this project or in the extensive archive footage.
However it is intensely irritating when some random celebrity comes on screen to tell us what we've just heard, or explain the obvious.
I don't mind the views and anecdotes from his family or people who actually knew him, but there were too many unnecessary talking heads delivering exposition that had obviously been scripted by the production.