Not sure what all the fuss is about.

Rating: 2/10 (26 March 2006)

This movie is boring. I suspect the reason all the folks lavishing praise on this movie is because they are drug addicted amorals themselves, like how JC is portrayed in the movie, and they will laud anything that glorifies that sort of thing.
Not even any original soundtracks, the lead uses his own voice does a mediocre job. He had a lip curl that looked more Elvis-ish. I didn't understand that at all until I learned the lead actor has a hair-lip. For cryin' out loud, what where they thinking? The only thing that stood out was that JC was a self-absorbed, emotionally immature drug addict still dwelling on child-hood traumas. He dumped his family for a little cutie (June Carter) he met on tour. I did not get a sense of romance out of it at all. I did not feel any empathy for JC as he was portrayed. To the contrary, I thought he was a creep. Nothing of the later part of his life that would possibly show some redemption of some kind (didn't he find religion later?) I liked JC as a musician, but came away from the movie having lost all respect for him as a man.