Where's Fire in 'Walk'? ; Story of Johnny Cash Limited but Interesting
The Washington Times › November 18, 2005
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"Walk the Line" opens outside the walls of Folsom State Prison, the Northern California penitentiary where Johnny Cash staged his watershed 1968 concert for an audience of deliriously grateful inmates. A galvanic rockabilly rhythm is faintly chugging. A black crow lands on a fence. A guard watches night fall, tired, aloof to the history being made inside.
It's a scene of seam-bursting anticipation that the rest of James Mangold's big-screen biography of the late Mr. Cash, good as it is, never lives up to. Johnny Cash's hit songs crackle - composer/ arranger T. Bone Burnett saw to that. Joaquin Phoenix, as Mr. Cash, and Reese Witherspoon, as June Carter, sing better than fine. And the movie is peppered with moments of humor, tenderness and Man-in- Black coolness.See the full content of this document
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Where's Fire in 'Walk'? ; Story of Johnny Cash Limited but Interesting
The sight of Mother Maybelle Carter brandishing a rifle is worth the price of admission alone.
Where it disappoints is in Mr. Mangold's almost monomaniacal dependency on a story line t...See the full content of this document
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