This series had everything,arguably the best ever sports documentary.
It gave everyone the chance to witness the journey of Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan going from nothing to the greatest of all time,
Kudos to Jason Hehir and the entire team.
14 Reviews
Hands down the best sports documentary ever made
smallestdude18 May 2020
Wow wow wow
From episode one all the one to episode ten, this was such a joy to watch. I watch basketball but I didn't know much about the MJ era.
This has got me hooked. Such an immersive show, not one part of the journey, or a person in the team has been left out. Everyone's stories are shown and it's amazing. While it is very much about MJ, the journey of the Bulls is just so amazing to witness, beautifully presented show.
When this ended I just said "damn"
vth-0655119 May 2020
I have always been a skeptic of Michael Jordan... I was born in 1998, and have grown up watching watching LeBron. I have always known that Michael Jordan is refered to as the G.O.A.T, but after watching Lebron throughout his career, I could never imagine anyone being better than him. I was on the brink of thinking that MJ's greatness was some kind of a "myth". After all, MJ is rarely presenting himself and rarely reaching out to the world today. I had only watched highlights of him and heard stories about him being a bully towards his teammates. Therefore I always imagined him as somewhat careless and arrogant.
BOY WAS I WRONG!
This man had so much love and passion for the game! Never have I seen anyone be this dominant and still striving for more. A true role-model. Furthermore, all of the raw footage from the hallways, bus rides and practice showcases so much of a personality that I never thought he had. He was intelligent and cool as hell and there's a difference between arrogance and self-confidence.
Netflix did a great job editing this series, the music is thrilling, the presence of his teammates, family and other celebrities are amazing.
I started out thinking of him as a myth... I finished it knowing he was a true Legend.
BOY WAS I WRONG!
This man had so much love and passion for the game! Never have I seen anyone be this dominant and still striving for more. A true role-model. Furthermore, all of the raw footage from the hallways, bus rides and practice showcases so much of a personality that I never thought he had. He was intelligent and cool as hell and there's a difference between arrogance and self-confidence.
Netflix did a great job editing this series, the music is thrilling, the presence of his teammates, family and other celebrities are amazing.
I started out thinking of him as a myth... I finished it knowing he was a true Legend.
One word - Greatness
sviki8618 May 2020
Thank you film crew and Netflix for this epic series. The world needed to see how this titans played the game.
I have always told that the MJ was the best player in the world ever. In his time, in this time, in future, the infinite of time. MJ thank you for the game, for passion, for love and for brand and gear that every one of us can feel like Jordan, just for a little bit :)
I have watched finals '98 when I was 12 years old, tonight 22 years later I was all sweating again till the ball went through the basket.
This is must see.
I have always told that the MJ was the best player in the world ever. In his time, in this time, in future, the infinite of time. MJ thank you for the game, for passion, for love and for brand and gear that every one of us can feel like Jordan, just for a little bit :)
I have watched finals '98 when I was 12 years old, tonight 22 years later I was all sweating again till the ball went through the basket.
This is must see.
One of the best documentaries ever
theswimmer018 May 2020
This series had it all. Never before seen footage. Thrilling storylines. Heart.
No matter what people were going to be interested in this, but the way that the filmmaker put this together really cemented this as one of the all time greats. It puts so much into perspective for people who just didn't get it, and showed just how good Jordan and those teams were. I wish there was 10 more hours.
No matter what people were going to be interested in this, but the way that the filmmaker put this together really cemented this as one of the all time greats. It puts so much into perspective for people who just didn't get it, and showed just how good Jordan and those teams were. I wish there was 10 more hours.
Best Directing and Editing in a Sport Documentary ever?
tabys_lojala_djurgardare19 May 2020
Warning: Spoilers
This single episode is probably the greatest thing in terms of Directing and Editing I've ever seen.
Mark Vancil in Episode X:
"Most people struggle to be present. People go and sit in ashrams for 20 years in India trying to be present... Do yoga, meditate, trying to get here, now. Most people live in fear because we project the past into the future.
Micheal's a mystic. He was never anywhere else. His gift was not that he could jump high, run fast, shoot a basketball. His gift was that he was completely present, and that was the seperator."
Looking back at it, that was obviously the first "building block" of this whole Docu-serie. Think about it; Every episode 1-9 contains back and forth storytelling about the present in 1998 and throwbacks to tell the story of MJ and the Bulls. In the Last Episode we have arrived to the present. No more throwbacks. Now we're "Right Here, Right Now" as stated with the first perfect choice of song by Fatboy Slim.
Then we get to follow MJ and see how much he lives for every single moment. All the 5 previous titles are gone. What's the point of being the previous years champion if you're not this years champion? It finally made so much sense to me why he hated that Barkley won the MVP in '93 and Malone in '97. He wasn't the best right there and then. Someone else was, and he hated it.
Mark Vancil once again: "The big downfall of a lot of players who are otherwise gifted is thinking of failure... Michael didn't allow what he couldn't control to get into his head. He would say 'Why would I thinking of missing a shot I haven't taken yet?"
Then the very intro itself. Only throwbacks. "It's time for me to move on". "Where do we go from here?", "This will be Phil's last year as the coach for the Bulls". "The only question... How long can it last?" Everything MJ didn't care about. He said it through the whole serie. The only goal was the championship of 1998. Nothing else was on his mind. He was just right in there in the now like he always was, focusing on the goal.
Then we all knew what happened and what an iconic moment it will always be.
It's the very ending that really makes this episode truly amazing. One of the best choices of songs I've ever heard in a documentary with Pearl Jams Present Tense. I haven't heard this song before and immediately had to look up the lyrics. Everything about the lyrics is just the best description of MJ's mentality and a message to us the audience, about how to go and live our lifes if we wan't to "Be like Mike".
We get the hear that perfect story of Phil Jackson's "ritual" with the players writing down their best memories of the season and then burn them. A more picturing meaning of leave the past behind is hard to find. MJ still not accepting the fact that they never got to compete for a 7th title, says so much about him, and that legacy and history isn't worth dwelling on if you're not performing in the present.
Thank you so much everyone involved in making this Documentary happen. As a longtime cinephile and Hoops-lover, this really out-performed my already high expectation. Even tough to me it wasn't that much new material, a lot of this has actually been online for a while, but I thought I heard all the stories and that I understood the greatness of MJ. I knew everything about his competitive nature and thought that was the very thing, but this last episode really made me see what his true power was. He was always present.
Looking back at it, that was obviously the first "building block" of this whole Docu-serie. Think about it; Every episode 1-9 contains back and forth storytelling about the present in 1998 and throwbacks to tell the story of MJ and the Bulls. In the Last Episode we have arrived to the present. No more throwbacks. Now we're "Right Here, Right Now" as stated with the first perfect choice of song by Fatboy Slim.
Then we get to follow MJ and see how much he lives for every single moment. All the 5 previous titles are gone. What's the point of being the previous years champion if you're not this years champion? It finally made so much sense to me why he hated that Barkley won the MVP in '93 and Malone in '97. He wasn't the best right there and then. Someone else was, and he hated it.
Mark Vancil once again: "The big downfall of a lot of players who are otherwise gifted is thinking of failure... Michael didn't allow what he couldn't control to get into his head. He would say 'Why would I thinking of missing a shot I haven't taken yet?"
Then the very intro itself. Only throwbacks. "It's time for me to move on". "Where do we go from here?", "This will be Phil's last year as the coach for the Bulls". "The only question... How long can it last?" Everything MJ didn't care about. He said it through the whole serie. The only goal was the championship of 1998. Nothing else was on his mind. He was just right in there in the now like he always was, focusing on the goal.
Then we all knew what happened and what an iconic moment it will always be.
It's the very ending that really makes this episode truly amazing. One of the best choices of songs I've ever heard in a documentary with Pearl Jams Present Tense. I haven't heard this song before and immediately had to look up the lyrics. Everything about the lyrics is just the best description of MJ's mentality and a message to us the audience, about how to go and live our lifes if we wan't to "Be like Mike".
We get the hear that perfect story of Phil Jackson's "ritual" with the players writing down their best memories of the season and then burn them. A more picturing meaning of leave the past behind is hard to find. MJ still not accepting the fact that they never got to compete for a 7th title, says so much about him, and that legacy and history isn't worth dwelling on if you're not performing in the present.
Thank you so much everyone involved in making this Documentary happen. As a longtime cinephile and Hoops-lover, this really out-performed my already high expectation. Even tough to me it wasn't that much new material, a lot of this has actually been online for a while, but I thought I heard all the stories and that I understood the greatness of MJ. I knew everything about his competitive nature and thought that was the very thing, but this last episode really made me see what his true power was. He was always present.
Bulls Dynasty
Katemam2118 May 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Bulls vs Jazz
One of the best finals, ending with probably the most clutch and well known shot ever.
We will never see again a team like Bulls and a player like MJ
Thank you netflix and Hehir for the best sport documentary and one of the best in general.
Thank you netflix and Hehir for the best sport documentary and one of the best in general.
What a documentary
theteamavengers31 October 2020
Arguably the best sports documentary ever made. It was a joy to watch it since episode 1. Had so much chills while watching it. The 90s Chicago bulls are the best team ever without a doubt. If you are a bulls fan the last minutes will make you cry
Great bit of sports action/history but it is too warm to its focus to really be the documentary it could have been
bob the moo16 August 2020
I started playing basketball in the early/mid 90's, around about the same time that channel 4 started bringing it to the UK in a way that was much more accessible. Although I was a Knicks fan, I watched a lot of Bulls games and, like everyone, knew Jordan and what he could do. The Last Dance tap into that well, bringing a sense of nostalgia and familiar summed up into one place in a tidy and tight documentary series. The focus on that final season of the Bulls makes for a good frame that it jumps around within; at times it is a little messy in the way it skips around, but mostly it does it in a clear way that makes sense.
The basketball action is supported very well by the behind-the-scenes access from the time, and the talking-head contributions from today are very well chosen, and focus on the right people for the majority of time. It tells an interesting story and does so in a well-paced way that has drama and impact. The downside of it is that, as it plays out, you realise how much of it does seem slanted towards giving Jordan more credit than perhaps he deserves. Perhaps knowing this, the series does let the 'Jordan as an a**hole' aspect come through but it is careful and quick to allow it to be explained away and moved past. In this sense the show falls short of being a pure documentary into the man or the team, but it does remain an engaging and entertaining recap on a great basketball player who was the lead figure in one of the greatest teams of the era.
The basketball action is supported very well by the behind-the-scenes access from the time, and the talking-head contributions from today are very well chosen, and focus on the right people for the majority of time. It tells an interesting story and does so in a well-paced way that has drama and impact. The downside of it is that, as it plays out, you realise how much of it does seem slanted towards giving Jordan more credit than perhaps he deserves. Perhaps knowing this, the series does let the 'Jordan as an a**hole' aspect come through but it is careful and quick to allow it to be explained away and moved past. In this sense the show falls short of being a pure documentary into the man or the team, but it does remain an engaging and entertaining recap on a great basketball player who was the lead figure in one of the greatest teams of the era.
Amazing last episode
cikof25 August 2020
Bounce
bevo-1367816 June 2020
Episode 10
bobcobb30118 May 2020
Warning: Spoilers
A lot of the meaty stories were already covered, we certainly knew how the journey ended, but this was still a wild ride and one we all needed at this point in time.
Michael Jordan is the best player the NBA has seen and they got almost all of the necessary subjects into this documentary series. Not surprising it became the hit it has.
Michael Jordan is the best player the NBA has seen and they got almost all of the necessary subjects into this documentary series. Not surprising it became the hit it has.
The Last "Dance"
bombersflyup29 May 2020
Warning: Spoilers
That's nuts to rebuild and offload everyone after just winning the championship with no serious injuries, Jordan retiring again while still dominant. He comes back to play for the Wizards three years later, so he retires three times. Rebuilding... franchises rebuild and never get close to the top again and then have to rebuild again, that's why it's called the draft lottery. You don't give up success for that, it's madness! That Utah team's certainly the best team to not win it, that I've seen. Jordan attacks the basket and scores, gets a steal and makes a shot to close it out in 6 and capture his 6th championship, the G.O.A.T.
Great series
dannylee-780823 October 2021
Love that there was no delay in introducing the finals. A lot of other documentaries would drag on trying to build up something.
Pippen handling the pressure and pain like a king. For anyone who ever played team sports understand the emotions and pressure you get when you get sick or in pain for the most important games.
Music choice has been excellent this whole series.
Game of basketball is so dramatic that a documentary about is dramatic...
The footage is just flawless and they are from 20 years ago...
What a great finish to a spectacular series!!
Pippen handling the pressure and pain like a king. For anyone who ever played team sports understand the emotions and pressure you get when you get sick or in pain for the most important games.
Music choice has been excellent this whole series.
Game of basketball is so dramatic that a documentary about is dramatic...
The footage is just flawless and they are from 20 years ago...
What a great finish to a spectacular series!!
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