i saw ray when it first come out . why . partly and because of the advertising hype and secondly because i just love the heck outa ray charles music . but not be around when his big thing in music and his life happen and i want to learn more about the man life . and in this film and i do . his addiction to drug be something i do not know and and the film let u know . but here the thing and while this be a decent autobiographical film . i can not say it be a great film . i have see malcolm x and be blow away . same with what love get to do with it and bird . the performance of each of those film be outstanding . i wasn not just draw into the main character in those film who do incredible job but to those around them as well . that help make a picture to me . i felt that at some part of this film be shallow and heavy hand for emotional appeal . and yes and i will admit at certain part of the film i almost fell asleep . and the film be too long . and the film leave out several other important detail of ray charles life that would have make the film flow well . the film get choppy to me in certain part . and the film seem to end with a whimper and not a bang certain part and include the end played like a tack on lifetime cable network movie to me . i expect more outa cinema . so where do my ambivalence come in . with jamie foxx performance . overall and he do okay . not denzel washington malcolm x or angela bassett tina turner spectacular and but . okay . sorry folk and but to me and there be several point in the film where i saw jamie foxx interpretation of ray charles and and in others thanks to the wonderful camera angle and light he look like ray charles . but i pay attention to the . acting . an actor have to make you believe he be the character he be play . not make a caricature of the character . do i believe jamie foxx be ray on the screen . sometimes yes sometimes no . do jamie foxx deserve a golden globe . you betcha . do he deserve an oscar . depend on who he up against . he get a few major competitor there and and he might just edge them out . but then again . maybe not . if jamie foxx doesn not win and i will not stand up and say he be rob . i wont particularly feel that he have be . this be a decent film with decent performance and a decent story . a great autobiographical film of the late ray charles . no . somewhere out there and i feel there be a great film about ray charles just wait to be make and and an actor that will blow you completely away in do so .