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Sorry, this movie sucks

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can't help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician. Crazy Heart boasts some good perfomances and a terrific cast of old and new actors but unfortunately the film's storyline felt a bit hollow and the drama never hit me as much as i expected it to do. Very disappointed with this drama. (5.5/10) (D+)

Scott Cooper directs a soothing masterpiece with the musically golden Crazy Heart. A broken shell of a man, broke, burnt out from years on the road of hard living Bad Blake (Bridges) tries to conquer the lost soul of his and climb his way back. He is rough around the edges but charismatic with the southern country charm. He meets a reporter Jean (Gyllenhaal), who he falls in love with and befriends her 4 yr old son Buddy. During a visit Blake watches Buddy for Jean and takes him out for the day as he is drinking, then loses the kid which causes a major rip in the relationship. Blake's underling who is much bigger now in stardom Tommy (Farrell) wants to repay the struggling musician, but stubborn is as stubborn does.A tremendous back set of a music score where Bridges and Farrell BOTH do their own singing which is actually very, very good. The drive and vision to produce these two stars in such magic is far ever seen. Bridges is fantastic, reminiscent of his portrayal in True Grit and his genius as THE DUDE. Gyllenhaal is amazing and not in the film nearly enough, a cameo with Robert Duvall as a bartender/friend who help Bad back to health is well perceived. A truly well written film. You will NOT be disappointed and will feel a sense of compassion and morality as you watch the transition of the characters. A stellar film with an 8/10 for me.

Overall, I like this movie. Jeff Bridges paints a believable portrait of a has been, drunken singer. He drives from place to place in a 30 plus year old Chevy Suburban singing in one dive after another while his protégé has become famous and travels with an entire caravan of top-of-the line motor coaches. What has me scratching my head though is why is an Irish actor (Colin Farrell playing the aforementioned protégé), cast as an American country singer? This is a case of severe miscasting. Why didn't the filmmakers have a real, American country singer play that part?

With all the talent in the world to do and be happy, but having talent is not synonymous with intelligence, and it has been shown over and over again. Most of the human beings learn, when it is almost too late, but it punishes you is the same that is benevolent with you, time. Time gives you an opportunity to Bad Blade, which already at the insistence of life realizes that it is never too late to try again to give a better end to our lives, but it turns out that a small defect makes the possibility of that end, the vice of alcohol. This is recommended for us to learn history, but again and again we ask, no chance to make those changes? For love he is able to help those changes, to win, but in the end only you have the last word and to get to that point something magical must inspire, but in most of the case back to mistakes. However, even so, it is never too late to change and try again, only this time if, convinced that we can now conclude, as a soldier returning home.