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Rating: 1/10 (23 July 2014)

I was in a sneak-preview of the movie and I found it just horribly bad. Maybe other people see that differently, because they know the music or even the musical, but because for me both was (mainly) unknown, I focused more on the camera, the dialogs and the choice of scenes and I just found it bad. The camera showed sometimes too long a face in which there wasn't anything to read in, mostly in case of the actor from Frankie, who can sing as hell, but acts as sh**. Eastwood found it also apparently very innovative to let to speak the actors directly into the camera and because of that uses that element veeeeery often. Above all at the end. Some of the dialogs are funny and smart, but most of them are simply babbling. The scenes seem to be chosen by chance. Something, which didn't seem to be important at the beginning, suddenly has a very important continuance, like the family scenes. Frankie marries a woman and has a few children. Nice. But then suddenly they come up, the wife an alcoholic, the children like beautiful accessory standing next to her.
So all in all, you can sit back and enjoy this movie when you know the story well and can blend out everything I just mentioned or you can see it my way and enjoy other music-movies, which seem to influence a lot the work of Clint Eastwood in that one, but in a really uncreative way.