Lacks inspiration of the human spirit

Rating: 6/10 (21 October 2009)

When I saw the trailer for this film, I had somewhat decent expectations for it, it wasn't high enough for me to rush out to theaters and watch it but thought it would be a decent and inspiring film, but was left disappointed. I haven't seen a movie about music for a while, especially about classical music so I decided to give this film a try. And the story follows the simple formula of a chance encounter changes a man's life. But this film just drags and drags to the point you feel like falling asleep, what they did was take a simple story and made it run longer than it should have. Cause you could simply tell the creators was running out of ideas, cause it didn't go anywhere. Just a white man constantly trying to a help a black man, but the black man is ungrateful cause he hits the black man for trying to help him although black man says stuff along the lines of loving him even if he has schizophrenia. Even if this is based on a true story, it is very difficult to buy into Robert Downey Jr's character and why he is trying so hard to help Jamie Foxx's character. I will however say that Robert and Jamie give good performances and as far as dramas go I seen way worse, this one is just not that interesting. Not as good as "Resurrecting the Champ" which was a better movie.
6.7/10