Foxx's second good performance of 04

Rating: 10/10 (1 March 2005)

In Taylor Hackfords new film Ray (Foxx) stars as blind jazz musician Ray Charles Robinson. Ray went blind at age seven after his little brother George drowns in his mothers wash tub. Ray started to play at night clubs and played other songs already written like Nat King Cole. After asked to do his first record he switches his last name to Charles which is his middle name because there was already a Robinson musician. Ray went through many struggles during his career like drugs and seeing or feeling his dead brothers corpse. Ray is an inspirational movie with music and drama from such a great director Taylor Hackford. Foxx shows his dramatic side and plays Ray as if he were him. Hackford moves up the director scale and shows his serious side. This truly is his best movie and one of the years best, Foxx deserves the Oscar.Surprisingly Foxx gives his second good performance of 2004. The first him playing Max in Michael Mann's Collateral. My rating 8/10.