You can't make a movie about Johnny Cash

Rating: 3/10 (19 November 2005)

Entertaining as a film? Yes. A worthy depiction of the early career of Johnny Cash? No. It is every bit as formulaic as the many other music bio-pics that have come around in the last 30 years or so, but I don't think it could have been anything else, considering the subject matter. I don't think you can make a movie about Johnny Cash.
There are lots of clichés in this film, like the obligatory line that leads audiences to mutter "Oh, that's where he/she got the idea for that song." While I don't think you can make a movie about Johnny Cash, the subject of his life deserves better treatment than this tedious rehash.