Review of Life Itself (2014) by Brandon W — 10 Sep 2015

Life Itself is a very fascinating documentary that made me respect Roger Ebert as a critic and a person. I actually never heard of Roger Ebert before and when I turned into a movie critic, he wasn't one of my influences as I've never read a review by him.

Only time I ever heard of him was from the Nostalgia Critic who is actually one of my influences which he is influenced by Ebert. When seeing from this film, I can see what his life and critic life is like and that I can see why other critics get their influences from him.

He gives a lot of depth into what he says and he's also very interesting about the things he talks about. His past life is interesting, and I think the best part of the documentary is when it talks about Siskel and Ebert as they really change history in terms of film critics.

Seeing clips from their show really got me invested and can see how it got very successful. Seeing from the condition, it really is sad about how much they had to go through, and when Ebert get depressed, he gets really depressed that he just want it to be over which you can tell and feel really sorry for him.

He does crack some jokes that are really funny which is a good thing that he hasn't lost his sense of humor. People might probably see Life Itself as Roger Ebert's farewell, which I totally understand and it's fitting hoe one of his last years, is being in a movie that Roger Ebert does what he loves best which is to review them.