The movie follows the grand 2018 world tour of the popular South Korean boy band BTS, consisting out of seven members. BTS thus travel through several cities, including Santiago, Sao Paolo, New York, Los Angeles, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Seoul. Some of their concerts are already sold out and thousands of (girl) fans are constantly cheering at them. They rehears their performances on the stage, while stopping to enjoy all the foreign cities, such as when they buy hot dogs in New York. On their final concert, they thank the fans.
A concert film commemorating the world tour of the South Korean boy band BTS gave at least some hints as to why they managed to rise through the ranks of many other bands on the global music stage. "Burn the Stage: The Movie" follows them through their tour which spans South and North America, as well as Asia. The editing and its pacing are fast and dynamic, trying to cram as many scenes and little events as possible, yet one complain should be aimed from this approach: it was an error to not include a single of their songs from start to finish, as to help the "uninitiated" part of the viewers to hear their style of music. Likewise, their concerts feel strangely "abridged", since the movie spends sometimes only 20 seconds on their stage act. Slowing down to dwell more on their songs and performances would have been a better choice, even though the movie would have been longer. Quite often, "behind the stage" scenes are the most fascinating to watch: the opening, for instance, shows how the guys are rehearsing a song, but their director tells them it would be better if they would just stand still after the ending, and then disperse through the stage. While the viewers do not find out much about the guys privately, some of their "off stage" moments are funny: the Los Angeles barbecue party, for instance, is a blast, showing them spontaneously jumping into the pool with a "selfie stick". Another humorous moment has one of the guys take a small, hairy puppy and joke that it is his purse. While the movie does not quite reach the heights of other concert movies, some of these comical outbursts give it charm.
Grade:++
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