Review of Cadillac Records (2008) by Markellus R — 09 Mar 2009

This movie was a great history lesson, but it was slightly faulty as a movie. Jeffery Wright is amazing as always,as Muddy Waters and Adrian Brody was solid as ususal. Beyonce puts in a real powerhouse performance but completely took over the end of the movie.

While we got to see glimpses of everyone else's performance, Beyonce got to perform 3 full songs. I guess it helps when you're an executive producer. Mos Def turns in my favorite performance of the movie as Chuck Berry.

He comes in late in the film and his story is over very quickly, but man did I want to seed more of that. There's a whole different story that needs to be told. Watch it for the performances and the fantastic music.