Ray

If anything, this movie can be praised for showing it like it really was. Jamie Foxx gives a career defining performance as Ray Charles, the sightless musical genius. But this movie isn't all great songs and the happy life of a musician, it was really dark, with constant depictions of drug abuse and sexual immorality. It was still good mind you, it just didn't try to put on a good face for the life of Ray. It ends right when his life got happy, that is right when he gave up heroine, and it was an inspiring story, it was just not something to recommend lightly. However like I said before, Jamie Foxx's outstanding performance, Ray Charles' incredible talents as a musician, and the skillful way in which Taylor Hackford shot and edited this movie makes it one well worth seeing, at least for those with stomach enough to handle the often extreme material.

B+