Review: Ray
Every year, you’ve gotta try every category once. So too a music derived film has to be seen. Ray Charles is this year’s entry, is a drama, without any of the documentary feel to it. With full cooperation before the late music legend passed, the dramatisation feels real including all the more nasty stuff. Insight in his psyche is there, though not too deep. It’s directed with a nice balance between drama, story and musical entertainment.
Highlight is, of course, Jamie Foxx’s performance, capturing all the mannerisms while delivering the heart and soul like he’s Ray himself. Clocking in at 2 and a half hours, it seems a little bit too long, but in the end, it feels just right (especially if the extra half an hour of extra footage suggests a three hour cut would have been possible). 7½.