Very Good

Rating: 8/10 (17 December 2005)

I am not usually entertained by biographies, and find many of them to be very slow. However, Walk the Line starts off with a bang and leaves you caring about the characters for the rest of the film. Joaquin Phoenix makes it very easy to relate with Johnny Cash, making him more than some celebrity in a movie. He becomes a very real person that you could imagine spending an evening with. Despite my usual indifference to movies of this nature, this movie was actually very interesting and entertaining. Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon have great chemistry and are sure to be nominated for Academy Awards. While I wasn't crazy about the guys that played Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley, the rest of the cast was quite good and made the movie very entertaining and easy to watch. Go see this film. You will not be disappointed.