I'm ashamed to say that this, unfortunately was the first Jeff Bridges film I've ever seen. I'm ashamed because I've heard so much about what a great actor Bridges is and yet I hadn't (and still haven't) seen any of his other movies. And it was unfortunate that this was the first of his movies I've seen as it doesn't give much evidence for him being a great actor. Granted, his singing is great for the movie, with a proper country sound to his voice, but when he starts speaking it seems as though he mumbles throughout.
Direction is great and acting is average, the storyline, however, doesnt fit. It's nothing new. A country singer, Bad Blake, is broke and alcoholic but when he meets a reporter/single mother, Jean, he falls in love with her and plans to change his ways for her and her son's sake. Whilst he gets gigs at little bars around America, a big step down from the massive popularity he used to have, Bad begins to have a purpose in life, seeing Jean regularly and helping her raise her son, Buddy, whom he vows not to drink in front of after Jean asks him. Things start going down though, when he is out with Buddy and decides to go to a bar. Buddy soon gets lost and Bad's relationship is torn apart.
In all, the film is basically Walk The Line with a few names changed and other parts added to the story and instead of a drug addiction its drink. although the songs make up for the mediocre acting, its not enough to make up for the whole film. Not really a film worthy of the big-screen, Crazy Heart might have been better suited as a straight-to-DVD film as it was planned to be before Fox Searchlight stepped in and decided to bore us after about an hours worth of watching a frankly foring movie.
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