Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

People seem upset that this doesn't convey all the facts as correctly as a documentary. But the same could be said for McFarland. I was not a Beyonce fan till this flick and discovered how good she is as an actor. Adrian Brody gives his typical solid performance. Jeffrey Wright plays his role with emotion and feeling and you get a real sense of the pain he feels and conveys it wonderfully with his acting. The movie is moving, emotional, and compelling, I have never seen anything to suggest it was a documentary but rather great actors telling a story about the start of something big in an era of racism and a man that helped to make it happen. Enjoy the movie for what it is-a movie about a difficult subject that might be historically flawed, that isn't the fault of actors which give a wonderful performance.

As a musician and a fan of most of the acts portrayed in this film, I was intrigued. And indeed, it is a good biopic of sorts that does justice to Little Walter, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Chuck Berry, etc., and the way that those great records were made. Adrian Brody and Mos Def are especially fantastic. I rarely ever get disappointed with their movies, except for "Predators" and "Be Kind, Rewind", respectively. The former was just overall terrible and the latter was boring."Cadillac Records" does however have one MAJOR drawback. Beyonce. For starters, I can't stand her voice. Doesn't matter if she's singing her crappy pop music or doing Etta James songs. Also, she can't act. Comparing this role to her role in the travesty that was "Austin Powers: Goldmember", where her lines were nothing more than stereotypical blaxploitation toss-offs, in "Cadillac Records" all of her lines are the usual music bio-pic rigmarole. And in both films, they're delivered with the emotional range of a piece of cardboard.So, if you like musical bio-pics or are a fan of any of the people involved with either the story or the movie itself, give this a go. But be sure to fast forward through the parts with Beyonce. You'll thank me for it later.

If you ever watch a movie that has a movie or video scene being part of that movie, you will always see a fairly accurate set decoration: lighting, rigging, boom operator, monitors, sound guy, costuming, props, etc- all the needed technical things that lend to the credibility of the scene. But 99 times out of a hundred if it has anything to do with music- be it in a club, concert hall, or the studio, those details get glossed over, ignored or forgotten by the director:(1) Electric Instruments, mixing consoles, and mic's have no cables,(2) sound timbre does not match the instrument- examples:Fender Rhodes sounds like an acoustic piano, real strings and horns from a synthesizer, vocalist voice is doubled- even thought there is only one of her,(3) instrumentation does not match the recorded music- big orchestral sound from a trio, harmony vocals by absent singers, single sax is now a horn section, chords being played on monophonic synthesizer, (4) ambiance is all wrong- reverb, echos, big crowd sounds in a small club, perfectly blended and mixed sound.(5) Hands and mouth don't sync up with the music- my personal favorite is the piano glissando that looks going up but we hear it going down, music that fades out. (6) artist who dress up in the studio- they never do that (7) full band recording in the same room with the vocalist- NEVER HAPPENS! (8) vocalist holding the mic in hand in the studio- NEVER HAPPENS!(9) All musicians wear leather and have long hair (10) A record exec walks in the scene and gives the act a record deal- NEVER HAPPENS. Common Hollywood get your act together already.

Was really looking forward to this but had to turn it off after half an hour due to the mass inclusion in every other word of the abhorrent swear term Motherf***er! Why the industry seems to think this is a nice phrase to listen to is beyond me. It's bad enough when we have the F word littered through out a movie but this is EVERY other word - why? do you think it adds to the 'flavour' - well it doesn't, it turns people off. Was this word even around in the fifties or just some modern day idiot who thinks it's a 'fine' word because it isn't. You show yourself up for the poor writer you are having this nasty term in every other word. It's a real shame too as this could have been great.