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Rating: Null/10 (13 March 2008)

Walk the Line (2005)
**** (out of 4)
Wonderful, if still flawed, story of Johnny Cash and June Carter is brilliantly brought to life by the two lead performers giving terrific performances. Phoenix was certainly born to play the role and delivers perfectly capturing the Man in Black, his drug addiction and his drawn out love to Carter. Witherspoon, in my opinion, is the best actress out there and I've been saying this the past twelve years or so and she really shines here. The two have wonderful chemistry together and the live numbers are filmed perfectly and the two have rather nice voices, although I don't think they sounded too much like the real couple. I said the film was flawed and it is in a certain way but I think this happens with a lot of films based on real people. I think the film is somewhat hampered by the PG-13 rating but in the end this is a love story and an actors showcase and both aspects come off perfectly. The history of Cash's rise to fame along side Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis was a nice added touch. As everyone here already knows I'm a die-hard fan of Dylan and in the film Phoenix and Witherspoon do a duet on "It Ain't Me Babe", which was so damn good that I'd call it better than any Dylan version I've heard and better than the real Cash/Carter duet.