Taylor Hackford's stylish depiction on the life of Ray Charles with a dedicated performance by Jamie Foxx.

Rating: 10/10 (19 August 2017)

The movie Ray was an incredibly big critical hit in 2004 and earned a spot in film history as the first African-American biopic to be nominated for 6 Academy Awards and in my opinion rightfully the movie truly earned those Academy Award nominations simply for the stunning editing techniques. This film is a biographical film that is based on the real-life blind musician Ray Charles and his successes and downfalls that also revolves around the wicked, self- indulgent effect that fame can have and how it causes his social life to quietly fall down a hole. The fact that the film deals with the cause of fame means that it is very honest, realistic and confronting in my opinion because of how some people are naive to the consequences of being famous. The message of this is also carried along in a very well made flow throughout the development of the film as we get to know Ray Charles and his past and we get to know some of Ray Charles's inner demons that show us that even the most perfect people can have flaws. The film itself is very well made purely because of the even pacing, exciting editing and ear- pleasing music, and with all that a dedicated performance by Jamie Foxx is given to execute it. This will probably be one of the more exciting biopics you will see in your life, so why not give this a watch?