I watched this movie under protest because my wife wanted to watch it. It was definitely not my first pick of movies to watch. I was pleasantly surprised on how good the movie was. The acting was, for the most part, top notch. I like Eddie...
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I watched this movie under protest because my wife wanted to watch it. It was definitely not my first pick of movies to watch. I was pleasantly surprised on how good the movie was. The acting was, for the most part, top notch. I like Eddie Murphy and I usually find myself watching, and liking, his movies but here it seemed to me that he was just playing himself channeling James Brown. Also, Beyonce can't act. She never has been able to act and probably never will. Jenifer Hudson was awesome! I watched her on American Idol and enjoyed her singing but never would have thought that she could act! She is great in this movie! Jamie Foxx is great in the movie as well. I am a big Jamie Foxx fan and think he is a great actor in pretty much everything he does. The movie itself had some problems though. I understand that the movie is a musical but there would be no singing except for the concert stuff and then all of the sudden someone would break into song. I didn't get it and in my opinion it brought me out of the movie. Oh well. The story itself was long. They maybe should have cut it down to an hour and a half or so. It seemed to drag on a bit.