Powerful

Perfect cast and a good story

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Dreadful movie with a very thin plot.Miles Davis is deserving of a more full and compelling biopic of his life rather than a movie stretched out from a fairly uneventful period of his public life, plus a bit of artistic license including the reporter character.Don Cheadle pulls off a reasonable portrayal of Miles, whereas Ewan McGregor doesn't really add anything to the movie. The one saving grace is Emayatzy Corinealdi with a touching performance as Frances Taylor, and... of course... Miles' music.Wish I'd put on one of his albums instead and read a book!

This could have been a great film. Miles Davis was a great musician, had an amazing life, and was a truly wild character. The acting and production quality were very good; what happened to the writers?I know Davis had some great stories to tell, because I heard one about him. He was in the hospital recovering from vocal chord surgery, and was instructed to rest his voice. Instead, he flew into a rage over something and started screaming at everybody, resulting in that whispery, raspy voice for life. Now, I don't know if that was true, but if a story that great could have been even made up about the dude, a cool flick could have resulted....I am glad they didn't do a Lifetime channel sugar coated movie, thus the 3 stars. However, a confusing day in the life of an irritable addict does not a film make. It would have been interesting to see how he rose from the upper middle class of being a dentists son, to the upper upper class of being a high paid celebrity musician. I know Davis was no gangsta, but they could have played off that and at least done some wanna b insight into a spoiled professionals son trying to be hard. At least they could have done the Indie Flick slow, depressing depressed addict thing, since he was addicted and therefore like all addicts he was depressed. Instead, we get a sort of rock video , part MTV, part 60 minutes, part movie of the week ; it's as hideous and confusing as any creature with a three parent DNA makeup.

There are just so many of these films. I don't know what's the point anymore.Musicians come in all sorts, poor, rich, instantly successful, eventually successful, famous, unknown, etc. They suffer from a variety of problems - writer's block, love, heartbreak, etc.But it seems that every film about a musician is reduced to a period where he's addicted to drugs and can barely work as a musician. You have an entire career of an artist, and you want to pick this moment to make a film about?The problem is that everyone is doing this, so every film about music, from bands to solo artist to record executives (HBO's Vinyl) are about drugs. Music is just the background.The story is "let's score some drugs," "let's do some drugs" and finally "let's retrieve some tape." There are some period references, boxing, police brutality, racial tensions, but they were added in later as spices rather than essential elements of the plot.Don Cheadle's acting was great. I don't know if his direction is great because the final product isn't. Cheadle is the lead actor, the director, has writing credits and is the producer - the film is not good, so it's gotta be his fault. I think he should've had less control on the picture. The only worse thing than having an army of yes men is having yourself in every position, high-fiving yourself for every decision.The choice to pick this part of Davis' life was flawed to begin with. This is not a film about a musician that does drugs, this is about a junkie who also plays music sometimes.

An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis. Although Don Cheadle is great both in front the camera and behind it the rest of the movie and the life of Davis himself is just not that interesting with bland characters and a very boring narrative and pacing Miles Ahead is a disappointment from start to finish with uninteresting characters and a very little of his life in the music part since most of it it's based upon guns and cocaine but like i said Cheadle is really good and if you like movies about music and drama you won't be disappointed but don't except another Ray or even another Get on Up it's not even close on that category it's just a very mediocre film 6/10.