Not as good as "Walk The Line"

Rating: Null/10 (30 October 2010)

Like the earlier and superior "Walk The Line", this is a tale of an alcohol-fuelled and washed-up country singer, ultimately saved by the love of good woman.
Whereas the first movie was a bio-pic of Johnny Cash, this one tells the fictional story of Bad Blake, an unsympathetic role inhabited with total conviction by Jeff Bridges who even sings the songs in possibly the finest performance of his career, with Maggie Gyllenhaal as his (much younger) romantic interest. Well-played support roles are filled by Colin Farrell and Robert Duvall.
While this is a commendable work from first-time director and co-writer Scott Cooper, this is not really my type of film and it's certainly not my kind of music, so it was more a choice for my wife than for me.