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Great music, great performance, not really a great movie though. Too many scenes felt like they were more fiction than fact. It was nicely filmed, but awkwardly told.

Posted at February 28, 2005 08:24 PM

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You know Rich, I agree with you that Ray had some troubles with "Hollywood-izing" Ray's life, and that various aspects were rather clunky (esp. Ray's sudden realization that Racism is concert halls is bad). And the easy psychology of his dead brother as symbol for past guilt is almost unforgivable.

That being said, Ray was a fine, luxurious piece of film. Fantastic ensemble (Ray's wife, and the fabulous women backup singers), the songs, the music, Jamie Foxx, and the joy of Ray's talent really won me over.

Posted by: Brent at March 1, 2005 12:26 PM

Yeah, Jamie Foxx definitely deserved that Oscar, and I'm probably going to pickup the soundtrack. All of the musical scenes were great. But the examples you gave, plus the scene where as a kid he goes from crying on the floor to catching crickets in a span of minutes and things like his hallucination in the beginning that were there solely to lead you into explaining what happened to his brother and then stopped happening completely took me out of the story.

Posted by: at March 1, 2005 01:15 PM