"Walk The Line" lacks dimensions

Rating: 6/10 (22 December 2005)

Okay, pick your own worst fault and have someone make a biographical movie centered on it. This is essentially what this movie did for Johnny Cash. His drug and alcohol dependencies, such as they might have been, were not central to his image, to his stature in country music, or to the humanity he represented. This movie marginalized Johnnny Cash.
I was happy to see from movie-review websites such as yours, that the under-30 age group raved about his music, belatedly realizing that rhythm is not the exclusive property of rock musicians. A further evolution will occur when they get to appreciate Johnnny's slower, more melancholy country rhythms which were absent in this movie, no doubt in an attempt to appeal to a wider audience.
Take it from a life-long fan, apart from his "songwriting" in that German hangar and his audition for a recording, folks, it was Johnny himself actually singing, not J. Phoenix. Ah, the wonders of lip-sync and dubbing!