Excellent Ray Charles biopic

Rating: Null/10 (28 July 2006)

Ray should be seen for Jamie Foxx's wonderful performance. The other actors are excellent as well. The film devotes much screen time to Ray's drug addiction and his womanizing which shorts time that could have been spent on his music, recording, performing. This gives the film an overall depressing tone. Still, the addiction was an important part of his life so it probably had to be included to the extent it was. It's interesting to see how Ray Charles wrote music based on the incidents in his life; art imitating life. After seeing Ray, you can watch the white version of the same film - I Walk The Line, the Johnny Cash story.