Surprisingly good

Rating: 8/10 (31 December 2014)

Clint Eastwood, directed of Gran Torino, Million Dollar Baby and many others pulls something different out of his sleeve for Jersey Boys. I was hesitate to trust Clint Eastwood with directing this movie, and imagining how hard it would be to turn a play on Broadway into a film, but to my surprise, he pulled through. Jersey Boys is a musical biography centering four young troubled men who come together to create the famous 1960s group The Four Seasons.
Jersey Boys shows the dark and troubled past and hardships the young men faced on their rise to fame. With being in and out of jail, money problems and connections to the mafia, they faced a lot more problems at a young age than the average singing group.
I would give Jersey Boys an 8/10 because of the amazing actors and music, and of course, seeing the recreation of Jersey Boys making my grandma cry. The movie did contain some slow parts that almost put me to sleep, but all in all the acting and directing really made a good movie. John Llyod Young's portrayal of Frankie Valli was almost perfect. Seeing as I'm only seventeen, I obviously wasn't alive at the time of the rise of the Four Seasons, but seeing my grandma tearing up to the sound of "Frankie Valli" singing was enough to prove that he was right for the part.