The Michael Jackson film is a failure on every single level

“What’s wrong with Michael Jackson?” An Iraqi interrogator (played by Saïd Taghmaoui) asks an American prisoner about being tortured in the most impressive scene David O. Russell Three KingsA black comedy set after the First Gulf War in 1991. “Your country is making him rip his face off.”

“That’s bullshit, he did it to himself,” the American (played by Mark Wahlberg) objects, but the interrogator retorts: “Michael Jackson is the pop king of sick fucking country…your sick fucking country made the Black man hate himself.”