Mini-Review: Terribly melodramatic (but what isn't?). Yes, Jamie Foxx puts in a good performance, but it seems to me to just be an impersonation and not as worthy of the Oscar as, say, Don Cheadle's was that year. Further, he did not even interpret Charles' songs, disappointing considering he's supposedly a musician. (Joaquin Phoenix did, which made Walk the Line feel more like a movie.) Anyway, the best bit is probably the music, which exists (thankfully) independent of this film.