WOW!! What a film!

Rating: 10/10 (18 February 2006)

I'm 22 so didn't really know too much about Johnny Cash except some of his music but this film left me wanting to know more. I've seen all the big films this year, king kong, brokeback mountain, munich but this film I felt pipped Brokeback as my favourite film in a long time, I did want Ledger to get best actor at the Oscars but I think Pheonix may just pip it for me. Witherspoone also proves she can do A LOT more than just Rom-coms she was brilliant! The film is brilliantly shot (how its not up for best picture i don't know!). The acting from the lead roles right to the lesser roles is brilliant and consistent. Pheonix is unbelievable on the guitar and has got Cash's voice as near as anyone could so deserves a massive amount of credit for that! Walk the Line kept me fixed from the 1st minute to the last and had me totally engrossed with some brilliant scenes with Pheonix and Witherspoone (serious chemistry). This may sound a bit far fetched but Pheonix goes up there with some of the best ever performances for this one, Crowe, Hanks I have always admired but I now look at Pheonix as a superb actor now rather than just a very very good one.
Walk the line blends humour & emotion brilliantly and neither overspill to become too much. I don't know how much of the film has been exaggerated or dulled but to me it doesn't matter at all. I may have been too young to remember Nash as a person but this film gives an exceptional account of what it may have been like for him and his future wife June. The film is neigh on perfect and although I can see some people my age and younger not relating to it so well, I think any fans of Cash or interested in autobiographies will love this gem. Deserves every bit of praise it gets! 10/10