A plane walk with rolling coaster actors

Rating: 6/10 (23 August 2013)

It's a long (two hours-and-something) walk the one James Mangold put us through, but it's worth to take the ride since Johnny Cash sings in your ears all night while Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon show us what acting is about. The movie has a simple story: the life of a music legend; the actors put some good magic on while Mangold walks with the camera nearby. The director never lets the story or the actors take over the movie or slip away, and the time flows. Mangold doesn't take risks on screen and delivers (that will keep him in the world of blockbusters movies), but it doesn't make him - now - a director worth following.