Movie Review: Walk The Line

This is one of the great mystery movies of all time, for it shall always be a mystery to me as to why Reese Witherspoon won an Oscar for her role as June Carter. But then maybe I am not very bright and a just your average idotic fan.
Coming to the movie, if you have not seen it you would do well to avoid it. It is the story of Johnny Cash who witnesses a great tragedy, that of seeing his elder brother die when he is a young boy. If you think that this sounds like 'Ray', well it does. The brother here too meets a grisly end and its a memory that haunts Cash the same way it did Ray Charles.
However unlike Charles the songs in the movie are un-memorable and as you come out of the movie you know why Johnny Cash is no longer on the FM stations or on your ipod. Cash's musical inclinations are best summed up in his interpretation of Dylan's classic 'It Ain't Me Babe' which in Cash's hand turns into an upbeat love-song devoid of all the sarcasm and irony.
The rest of the movie is predictable with drugs, dames, divorce and depression following the singer through life. Joaquin Phoenix is decent as a brooding Cash but not spectacular.
On the whole if you want to watch a biopic about a singer watch 'Ray' if not anything else you will at least have something to hum when you are done.
As for Ms Witherspoon I suggest that she could try doing Legally Blonde 3. Who knows that might win her yet another Oscar