Redemption songs

Marley

(2011)

Probably hard to resist hagiography with this guy, and to be fair, the subject's freedom with his sperm (11 children with 7 women) is mentioned, but there are times when you wish you could see a little more humanity--either that, or just go full-bore concert film. Incidentally, this is listed at 145 minutes, and I'm not sure how many of those VH1 showed, since I trusted the reported 2½-hour time slot, only to have the end cut off. Before that, at least 42 of those 150 promised minutes disappeared into the commercial black hole. But I got as far as Marley's death (I'd forgotten he was only 36--sad, sad, sad), so presumably they cut some in the middle, and there wasn't much left but end credits. Still, programming people: be honest with DirecTV, will ya? Unless it's a sporting event, we shouldn't have to fiddle with adding time at the end,