my wife want to see this movie and i grudgingly go along . i have never be a big fan of the biopic believing that cinema be more exciting when it isn not structure in non fiction . beyond that and although i like ray charles music just fine and i do not consider myself a fan of him or his music . i expect to either suffer or coast through this movie . i be wrong . this be an engage story tell in a classic cinematic style . the realism be in the nuance the tilt of a character head after a dramatic moment or the look in their eye while they sing . i literally discover myself involve in this movie during the course of view it . jaime foxx and of which much have be say and head a cast of immaculate re creator of not just a time and but an era and a life that never really exist to those of u under forty . this movie sink the audience into time without the gimmick and grand sweeping panorama of titanic or other period piece of that ilk . this movie doesn not present you with the 50 and 60 music scene and it take you there . this be a movie about ray charles and but your appreciate of it should not be limit to the story of his life . this be the kind of movie and like save private ryan or schindler list and that do what a movie should do bring you to another place and another time .