It's hard to criticize any movie with Jeff Bridges in it. Harder still anytime you get a chance to see Robert Duvall on screen, but, it's hard as heck not to walk out of Crazy Heart without thinking: this exact movie has been made before, made better, only starring Robert Duvall. As in Tender Mercies...so good that Duvall won a Best Actor Oscar. I loved Jeff Bridges channeling Waylon Jenning's look and music, but that was about it. Alcoholic country singer, grown child of a former marriage, single woman with a young child, interaction with a young backup band...it's Tender Mercies II, with a bit of Payday thrown in. If you have never heard of Payday, look it up on IMDb, Netflix it and discover one of the great unknown country music movies of all time.
Review of Crazy Heart
