Review of Walk the Line (2005) by Lara M — 25 Sep 2010
Convincing performances by Phoenix and Witherspoon, but otherwise the movie does absolutely nothing to stand out from other cookie-cutter biopics. It's slow, humorless, and has almost no memorable scenes or lines.
There are lots of cliche moments which, if taken verbatim from Cash's biography, then I will forgive as being examples of (admittedly sad) truth - however if this is simply the best the screenwriters could do to paraphrase key events in Cash's life they needed to do a few re-writes.
The record producer telling him to believe in himself? His wife saying "I want you, John?" These are generic drama scenes that practically write themselves. To the extent that this movie accurately accounts Cash's life, it's tragic.
To the extent that it doesn't, it's dead formula.
This review of Walk the Line (2005) was written by Lara M on 25 Sep 2010.
Walk the Line has generally received very positive reviews.
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