Very good performances from Jackson and Ricci.

Rating: 8/10 (19 March 2007)

I thought Black Snake Moan would be one of those Walk The Line type of movies but I was completely wrong as Samual L Jackson adds another interesting character to his already impressive CV. The story is what attracted me to it in the first place, about a deeply religious blues player named Lazurus whose missus has just left him and he is pretty cut up over it but tries not to let it get to him as he holds his faith near to him whilst on the other side we have Rae (by far Chritina Ricci's best role to date) who is one could say a version of 'the beast in the heat'. The plot is not really that big , but what the film does show us is that if you take away all the stuff that is going on around them they are at the end of the day two troubled souls reaching out for love. Chracther development was the main the thing that this film focused on and done a wonderful job of people going into Lazurus and Rae's lives. Samual L Jackson was brilliant as the blue's guitarist and I really enjoyed every moment he was stringing his stuff. Chirstina Ricci'e performance was the one that moved me and I felt she was the star of the show and Timberlake done well with his small performance. To conclude Black Snake Moan was something different from what I would normally see , the film deals with a lot of taboo themes of drug abuse , interracial relations , Nudity etc but it goes beyond that and makes the viewer see it for what the core subject is at hand. I would recommend to people who would like to view something different for a change but I would say check it out when it comes out for rental or on TV.
BLACK SNAKE MOAN - 8.1 OUT 10
Everything IS HOTTER DOWN SOUTH !