A movie you can watch again and again

Rating: 10/10 (17 August 2005)

This was a great film. Naturally everybody talks about Jamie Foxx's performance, and why wouldn't you - it was truly great. Here's how good it is, though: all traces of the actor disappear, and when you watch the film you don't think about the fact that you're watching someone doing an impression of Charles, you just feel as if you're watching the real man. This is pretty impressive because in the hands of a lesser actor the performance would have seemed silly.
And of course the music. The people who made the film were wise enough to put song after song of Ray Charles' music in there, sung by the real Ray. I suppose if for some reason you don't like Ray Charles music (which would be pretty bizarre, but I suppose there are some people out there), the music may become tedious. But for the rest of us it was a delight.