Great Film, Mediocre Beyonce!

Rating: 8/10 (5 January 2007)

Beyonce sure is lucky to have been given the chance to be in this film. Great cinematography and wonderful direction. The shinning stars were truly Eddie Murphy and Jennifer Hudson who were just the show stoppers.
Beyonce and Jamie Foxx were riding high on their coat tails. The flow of the movie from scene to scene is very similar to that of Chicago and a similar formula is used to tell the story. Some of the songs like "Step into the Bad Side" are songs that you can't help but get into, especially if you have a musical theater background yourself.
It's terribly ironic that Beyonce's song "Listen" is the one that is being pushed on the radio when the HUGE song in the movie is Jennifer Hudson's "And I am telling you I'm not going". I guess the only way to justify Hudson not getting top billing in both the titles and the song is to say that she is the movie's best kept secret once you walk into the theaters.
I can let the golden globes slide, but if Beyonce gets a best actress nod instead of Hudson, all will be lost in the film industry. Enjoy the film.