Surprisingly dreary

Rating: 5/10 (20 January 2007)

I say surprisingly, as I had expected a film about music legend Johnny Cash to be an exciting recreation of the birth of rock and roll era, and later his dominance in country music. Instead we got an overlong film about an alcohol and drug dependent Cash deserting his wife and family to chase after another man's wife. Well, I guess that is the stuff country music is filled with - his dog didn't die, but his tractor got stuck in the mud, and he was broke and drunk half the time. So the stars did all their own singing - a pity - neither of them can stay in tune. It just made me want to play a recording of the real Johnny Cash to drown them out.