Jeff Bridges is amazing!

Rating: 8/10 (8 February 2011)

Jeff Bridges does his absolutely best performance ever in Crazy Heart. He is really so good the film is worth seeing even if you have no real interest in it any other ways. Maybe someone could point out that the story doesn't really deliver anything that hasn't been done before. I can agree with that to some extent but with this film it doesn't matter, Crazy Heart is so well done. The characters are all great achievements, somewhat thanks to directing and script but the acting is what lifts the film to it's hight. Maggie Gyllenhaal and Colin Farrell manage to create characters that you become so interested in one sits on strict attention for the entire movie even if any big surprises remain absent from the plot. Even if it has many great aspects it is Jeff Bridges who carries the film. He really deserved the academy award for this. His character feels so real that under the films length of under 2h one gets a closer relation to him than few other can master. Maybe the story works so well because it is done in a so realistic way. It really feels like something that could be true and many times real life can lack surprising twists. I never get the feeling the plot is simple instead it feels like it's real. The film is sad and gripping. One comes to feel much for Jeff Bridges's character and the stuff he goes through. It is sad and a bit fun at the same time, a depressed dark humor. The feel-good kind of film. Even though like I stated it's not a film with lots of plot twists, but still I never sit thinking: I know what will come next, because it has such a soul I just want to see what happens to the gripping characters. The style and pace that it's told at is absolutely perfect for the story. The film is under 2h which is just enough, the film is at a low pace but not in a slow way rather I get the relaxing feel. Then the music which I loved so much. The songs are great and the performance by Bridges and Farrell are brilliant, very impressive! Crazy Heart is often a sad film, sometimes depressingly so but it's one that also makes you happy. However it has something more than the average feel-good film. I think one could say they have done much, very much with little. Crazy Heart really has a heart and a very deep soul.