Left me somewhat disappointed

Rating: 8/10 (20 November 2005)

Walk the Line has impressive performances,a great director, and a great story to tell,but in the end it could have been so much more. The bulk of the story is Johnny Cash's love and obsession with his future wife June Carter.The filmmakers looked at the wrong aspects of Cash's life to film thus turning it into a stereotypical biography movie.The relationship is all well and good but it gets tiresome and you want to see more about Cash's music and how he created it rather than his love life and his pills.The performances are dead on,Joaquin Phoenix's Johnny Cash is uncanny.I was all most amazed to find out he sang all of his songs because he has Cash's voice dead on.Reese Witherspoon gives the best performance of her career,she actually has a role she can chew.The always talented Robert Patrick plays Cash's father. I was disappointed by the film though.Every bio film focuses on the negative aspects and a person who didn't know a thing about Cash's life can predict the ending of his story. I think they should have and could have done some more with Johnny and June's marriage.