It's a miracle!

Rating: 8/10 (19 June 2020)

A movie made to capture the lifestyle and essence of "The South" as in Southern USA and they didn't have that moment where a white man blatantly gets racist with an African-American. That alone was just so refreshing to see. With the main characters of the movie you get a great look at 3 levels of acting with Samuel L Jackson being an upper echelon elite actor who can just make anything work and make it authentic and natural without even trying. Then there's Christina Ricci who has a pretty incredible actor in her own right. She really nails this role and I just worry after not hearing much about her after this movie if she got so deep into this role of a woman struggling with sexual promiscuity that it sort of tainted her image and limited her ability to continue getting roles in big movies?! Her acting is really great and while it's not as natural and easy as Samuel's compared to JT you would think she was related to Marlon Brando! Timberlake has the 3rd dynamic part in this movie and it just seems like he's trying to hard to act, but at the same time it gives a great gauge on just how great Ricci and Jackson really are. The Blues music inspiration and base of this movie gives it such warm personal character. What a great job the director did if keeping that constant "blues" energy from start to finish. I give it an 8/10