"I've done a bad thing, cut my brother in half"

Rating: Null/10 (29 August 2008)

Samuel L. Jackson makes like 5 movies peer year, most of them are just not good. Still I was expecting maybe hoping to found Black Snake Moan as not just another decent movie. There are some things that helped a lot Black Snake Moan in order to be what I was expecting. Jackson is really good here as the old Lazarus who is an old blues player now suffering due to his wife, now ex-wife and with that founding the blues again. Could have like a dream for anyone what happened to Lazarus. He found a semi naked girl (Ricci) in the middle of the road, a girl who has been suffering a lot. But the dream will be for that girl, not immediately and less with that chain of course. She is part of other story with her boyfriend (Justin Timberlake). A couple that will be separated due to the war. Timberlake can't act but I will write about the cast a little later. This movie is basically the story of a girl who suffered since she was young abuse and that bring in the present the consequences that we are watching. She found like an effective medicine for her sickness in the character that Timberlake plays but she found a cure with Lazarus.
During the first part f the film we see Ricci in underwear all the time and during that part we have also some funny situations, with Lazarus' young helper for example. When Timberlake arrives again we can see again the bad actor he is and we have an anticipated conclusion but by then we have already enjoyed Ricci and some great music. I think there are only like three songs in the movie (I'm not counting Ricci's since it's like a country song). I saw this one with some friends and my cousin who, like me, recently watched Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. We could not take the blues songs seriously here; it was like every time a blues note started he was like " cut my brother in half" and stuff. Don't watch this with someone who you know is funny and that has seen Walk Hard.
Samuel L. Jackson's performance is good but definitely is not any kind of a special performance just like the film is not any kind of a great one. But it wasn't in absolute a complete waste of time so it's basically your decision.