The Life of Legendary Blues Man Ray Charles!

Rating: 4/10 (23 October 2007)

Another long and tedious movie from the man who gave us An Officer and a Gentleman; Taylor Hackford. Famous for being married to Helen Mirren and .... well, apart from Richard Gere carrying some chick out of a factory, not much.
And Here, yet again, the laws of biopic are completely forgotten. There has to be a point! You can't just do a film where someone does this..... then this.... and then this. Films need a theme and direction and Ray has neither.
Yes, the music is great, it really makes you want to go out and buy some Ray Charles CDs. But the rest of the entertainment is minimal and we would have been better off watching Ray Charles in concert.
Jamie Foxx is great though as the with other great actors/ress like Regina king.
But i wanted to learn about the real man; how his blindness drove him on, his drug addiction, his adultery and the reaction from his wife and the racist problems he encountered. But none of these are properly looked at. There is no proper narrative structure. This makes the film feel long and boring (something i've always been told not to say by my media tutor, long and boring.)