Wow,
what a great year for Jamie Foxx. First he goes toe to toe with
Tom Cruise in Collateral and then blows everything out of the
water with his performance in Ray. Like Charlize Theron’s
performance last year in Monster, Jamie Foxx is Ray Charles
in this film. You never doubt him for a second, he is that good.
The fact the Foxx is a trained concert pianist adds so much
believability to the performance that I can’t imagine
there is anyone else who could have come close to what he does
here.
As far as
the film goes Ray is nothing out of the ordinary for a biopic,
but it does everything well, which is all you can ask for. The
scene where we see Ray as a kid learning how to “see”
with his ears is one of the best directed scenes in any movie
this year. Visual story telling at it finest.
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