Surely deserves Academy Award consideration!

Rating: 9/10 (14 December 2005)

We start all of our reviews with the following information. My wife and I have seen nearly 100 movies per year for the past 15 years. Recently, we were honored by receiving lifetime movie passes to any movie any time at no cost! So we can see whatever we want whenever we want. The point of this is that CRITICS count for ZERO. Your local critics or the national critics like Ebert are really no different than you or me. The only difference is that they get to write about the movie and are forced to see hundreds of movies whether they want to or not.Therefore, it is our belief that if you get your monies worth for two hours of enjoyment that is good enough for us! We NEVER EVER listen or read the critics. We only care about our friends and those who we know like the same things as us. Well enough about that.
Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon make this a wonderful movie. They are equally superb. The story is also quite riveting as it covers the life of Johnny Cash including much of the dark side of his life. Both actors sing wonderfully and it is very much worthy of Academy Award consideration for the Movie and each of the lead actors.