Not much better than one of those VH1 movies, all three stars are for the music. With the exception of Beyonce I was impressed by all of the actors' singing. Beyonce can sing I suppose but she does not sound like Etta James. (If you haven't heard it...
- 17.December.2010
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- by: tapwater
- tapwater rated this movie
 0/10
Not much better than one of those VH1 movies, all three stars are for the music. With the exception of Beyonce I was impressed by all of the actors' singing. Beyonce can sing I suppose but she does not sound like Etta James. (If you haven't heard it yet, you should try to find Etta's hilarious rant about Beyonce on YouTube) The storytelling and direction are horrible, the acting is mediocre. I did like Mos Def as Chuck Berry, it was surprising how good he was but Chuck was also only a small part of the story. The Howlin Wolf character was fun too, he was almost frightening, he looked like he wanted to eat sombody. I wanted to know more about Chuck and Wolf, they both have more than enough fodder for their own biopics. There are a lot great stories about Chess Records but in my opinion Cadillac Records doesn't tell any of them well. Watch it, just don't expect much more than some good music.
- 17.December.2010
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- by: tapwater
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This is a good movie that could have been great. The musical performances were strong, and the source material is fascinating. I just wish the movie would have stuck with telling the story of the music without delving so much into the musicians'...
- 10.April.2009
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- by: fromtheisland
- fromtheisland rated this movie0/10
This is a good movie that could have been great. The musical performances were strong, and the source material is fascinating. I just wish the movie would have stuck with telling the story of the music without delving so much into the musicians' personal lives. The movie had far too many sad, boring, draggy scenes where the characters get all emotional and stuff. Who needs that? Don't get me wrong, I think there's a way to do family/interpersonal drama right, but in this movie it kinda fell flat.
Nonetheless, the musical performances are great - Beyonce steals the show! - and the history behind the story is fascinating. So I'd say definitely rent it, but you may want to skip some parts.
- 10.April.2009
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- by: fromtheisland
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As a blues fan and one especially keen on
Chicago-style electric blues, I was tremendously disappointed in the mediocre "CADILLAC BLUES." But you needn't be a fanboy to find fault with this film. The script is sentimentalized and melodramatic,...
- 19.March.2009
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- by: Vic
- Vic rated this movie4/10Disappointing
As a blues fan and one especially keen on
Chicago-style electric blues, I was tremendously disappointed in the mediocre "CADILLAC BLUES." But you needn't be a fanboy to find fault with this film. The script is sentimentalized and melodramatic, appears to have been written by a precocious high-schooler, and includes dialogue spoken in settings that all strain credulity. Good bio-pics blur the border between documentary and drama, but bad ones like "Cadillac Records" wind up being neither fish nor foul; the movie is decidedly not the history of Leonard Chess or of Chess Records, nor is it a drams with flesh-and-blood characters. The romance between Leonard Chess and Etta James, which may be true for all I know, is simply tacked on to the movie so that its hero, unengagingly portrayed by Adrien Brody, doesn't seem like a total cipher. As for the music, why in the world the producers didn't have their so-so cast lip-synch to those great, great Chess blues singles, I don't know. Instead, terrific music is rendered ordinary as the actors re-record note-for-note versions that have everything except the rhythm or the blues. Especially egregious is the moronically named Mos Def, playing Chuck Berry -- the actor looks, moves and sounds nothing like Berry. If you were expecting anything more from "Cadillac Records" than a standard, Hollywood treatment, stay away from this film.
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