Wednesday, May 29, 2013

"Ray" is One of Jamie Foxx's Best

"Ray" is a great film that tells the story of the great Ray Charles. Charles is played by Jamie Foxx and it tells the story of his career but also tells the awful past the singer has had. He has been blind for most of his life which has gave him some setbacks but he manages to overcome them. This film does a great way of telling this great story of ray Charles essentially created a brand new sound of music, that was at first suspect but now is looked as one of the greats. It is a great story put to film.

This film is so great mostly because of the great cast. Kerry Washington plays Ray's wife, Della Bea. She does a fantastic job of being the always supportive wife she needed to be when Ray was in need. Curtis Armstrong does an awesome job as Ray's manager, Ahmet. He really comes into his own in this film because this was his biggest film and he did fantastic. The real winner was Jamie Foxx. Jamie Foxx won the Oscar for Best Actor for this film. This is by far his best film, "Django Unchained" comes in at close second. He researched so much for this film by meeting Ray Charles talking with him, and learning his mannerisms. He did fantastic because of he really became Ray Charles in this film.

Grade = 92/100 = A-

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