good as far as it went

Rating: 7/10 (6 April 2006)

The film was great, as far as it went. There is so much more to the Johnny Cash story. .
The years he spent in Nashville sharing an apartment with Waylon were very important in his life. The film only devoted a few scenes to that. Waylon Jennings later came to be a large influence in his life, which was not addressed.
The drug issue was not covered as throughly as he did in his autobiographies. I would like to have seen more emphasis on his addiction and the hell he went through to kick it.
After he wed June, he travel led a lot, including to Vietnam during the war, plus his own TV show. Then there were "the Highwaymen" years.
J R Cash was much more than "the man who wed June Carter." I would like to have seen the film show that, not just be another romance story.
I would hope they could do a sequel