Starring – Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Gabrielle Union, Columbus Short
Director – Darnell Martin
Domestic Gross – $8,195,551
Running Time – 108 minutes
Cadillac Records attempts to tell the story of Chess Records in an entertaining fashion. The subject matter is there. Chess Records was to Blues what Atlantic was to R&B with a stable of musicians that included Etta James, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and Bo Diddley among others. Unfortunately the film starred Adrien Brody as Leonard Chess and he just mailed it in playing sleezy more than anything. They completely ignored the existence of Bo Diddley. Now, the good. The music was done extremely well. Beyonce really nailed Etta James in her version of At Last. To boil it down though this would have been better as a tribute concert than a movie. Don’t bother. Just check out the soundtrack instead.
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