Entertaining Movie - Jennifer Hudson kills

Rating: 6/10 (1 January 2007)

I liked this movie. Jennifer Hudson absolutely stole this movie -- every scene she was in -- with brilliant acting and incomparable singing. She was wonderful!!! Eddie Murphy was great too, we have never seen him like this, gritty, vulnerable, needy. Jamie Foxx was just OK. Hudson and Murphy deserve their rave reviews. But, I can't understand why Beyonce Knowles is nominated for a Golden Globe. When she wasn't singing she was out of her league. Her acting was wooden and painful to watch. Especially a scene at the end with Jamie Foxx's character where she couldn't muster a tear. You get the sense she has never had any painful dark place to draw tears from. She might get the Globe because the Foreign Press are enamored by her beauty but then again they gave one to that great actress Madonna, didn't they? Beyonce, honey they should have told you during the audition "..to the left, to the left.."