Just watched this, and I enjoyed it, aside from its flaws

Cadillac Records is a really decent film about the Chess Records family and how Muddy Waters put blues on the map. Jeffery Wright's acting is really top notch here and I felt he really embraced Muddy (Based on what I have read and heard from various bits in my 37 years on this planet).

However, Cadillac records suffers from I think was most likely a studio re-edit of the film. I really believe the film was taken away from the director and re-cut extensively by either the producers or the studios. You can tell and feel there was a much larger story in there and somehow the hack and slash editing job made the story almost unbearable to follow at times.

I really feel that you could tell tell there is an epic story in the raw footage, So many things seemed unfinished and from the numerous timeline issues you can tell the editors didn't give a crap about continuity and story.

The Cedric opening narration, and continued narration throughout the film really brings this to light as it doesn't seem logical for this sequence to even be needed. I think at some point a re-write was performed in Post Production and the opening narration was shot as an after thought.

Now while I was able to feel these flaws it doesn't mean that is the case, just an observation. Otherwise I did enjoy Cadillac records because I could piece together in my mind a lot of the missing bits that would have made this story 100% complete. In my opinion it is worth a viewing and I think a majority of watchers will find it very enjoyable.

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