Sorry, this movie sucks

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Ray is a biographical movie and focusing parts of Ray Charles' private life and music career. Ray Charles is a legendary musician, as many people know. He tried to integrate different kinds of music and helped to social change in American culture. He was lost his sight when he was a kid because of a disease, and he had to learn to live without seeing when his childhood. The movie built two main images. One of them is his little brother and other is his mother. His brother symbolized his fears because he died when he was a child and Ray couldn't save him and blame himself because of his death. And the mother image is symbolized his strong parts, cause his mother was the one of the supporter and teacher about the new life without seeing. Actually, I don't want to give too much specific information about the movie, I want to talk about being a black blind person in 1950's USA. It is important because racism had strong effects on all over the country those years. People were not equal and the black people were discriminated because of their skin colors. So, Ray Charles was the black and blind people in such an environment. Also, the regulations for disabled people were not developed properly, and there was not enough consciousness about being disabled. Therefore, he had to rely on only his remained senses to continue his life. It should be really hard to get used a life without seeing, especially if you know the better option.

Jamie Foxx deserves every drop of praise that he has received for this film. His performance goes beyond impersonation or embodiment, he simply becomes Ray Charles. It is such an amazing performance, that it serves to shine a light on some of the film's shortcomings. This is a largely by-the-numbers biopic that hits all the familiar beats -- drug abuse, family drama, breakout performances -- but Foxx elevates every moment of it.

the first virtue - it is more than a biopic. it is a smart, seductive, precise fresco of an era. in its details and dramas and sparkles. the second virtue - Jamie Fox. who does more than a great role but becomes the best guide to a way to survive, be victorious and remain yourself against each challenge. not the last - the music. not only for fans. but as window to a style to imagine and create the life. a film about pain, sacrifices and an impressive fight. and, maybe, about victory. in a form who escapes from ordinaries definitions. this is all.

It's 1948. Ray Charles Robinson (Jamie Foxx) leaves his home in northern Florida to go to Seattle. He meets Quincy Jones (Larenz Tate) playing the trumpet on the street. He's taken advantage of by Marlene Andres and Gossie McKee (Terrence Howard). There are flashbacks of Ray Charles as a boy who went blind at the age of seven and witnessing his younger brother George drown. His willful mother insisted that he be independent. He would rise in fame and success but is always haunted by the water and his guilt.This is fairly standard biopic fare. Ray Charles is a great subject and this is a well made movie. Jamie Foxx does a great job but one gets the sense that the movie pulls its punch a little. It's also a bit simplistic by laying so much with the death of George. However the mother character is terrific. Sometimes simplicity is a good thing. When you add the great music, this is a good music biopic.