Miles Ahead

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Michael D @MichaelX 17 hrs ago Jazz runs deep in our household; we love John Coltrane on sax, Herbie Hancock on piano, and Miles Davis on trumpet, amongst many others. Don Cheadle’s passion project, "Miles Ahead", which he co-wrote, produced, directed, and starred in, is itself structured like a jazz composition: non-linear, freewheeling, and best experienced if you simply surrender to it. An edible will definitely help. Cheadle admirably captures the prickly genius of Davis in a late-career slump following years of heroin addiction, but the fictional scaffolding of a screwball caper involving stolen session tapes and Ewan McGregor as a tenacious journalist, doesn’t always hold together. It’s a valiant effort, but not totally successful. It did leave me wondering, as all great music biopics do, whether true genius ever arrives without great tragedy as its travelling companion. Maybe that’s simply the bargain. For jazz fans and Miles devotees alike, don't miss this one. See more Shioka O @RT54204327 Apr 9, 2024 Don Cheadle worked hard, but Miles Davis looked just a silly man in this and that seems true. The ending is the most worth watching part. See more Butler C @Scottylo Aug 21, 2022 I don't understand some of the low scores for this movie. Were they deaf dumb and blind?! My overall knowledge of Miles Davis is somewhat limited and yet, as a musician (guitarist) I understood exactly what he was talking about in the narrative. For example when he brings up the remark of old people asking him why he no longer plays the same and his explanation of that was pure poetry. The acting was superb; the action was superb and the story, although short in length, was outstanding. Five stars, all the way! See more Mar 19, 2022 The star ratings are insufficient. It's not "pass the time". It's also not "good". I think the issue is time availability. It felt like a movie that was just too short, at 1 hour and 40 minutes. "The Temptations" was a four-hour TV miniseries. "Ray" was two and a half hours. Even "Five Heartbeats" which was about a musical act that (technically) doesn't exist, got two hours. "Miles Ahead" felt like a fraction of the story. Things left completely unresolved, and the way the timeline was depicted in the movie was strange - circular, didn't make any sense to me. That felt like a byproduct of a lack of time; how do you get "just enough" of the message in for the length of a regular feature film? Whether this was due to an external constraint or a purposeful decision, it just felt like there was more that could have been done around this man's story - which from what little we did get, was extremely compelling (which is why we wanted more of it and feel there should have been more). See more Jun 8, 2021 This is one of those movies where everyone whisper and when the music / sound play it’s as loud as can be - also I lost interest 10 minutes in See more Dec 23, 2020 Look, I love Miles Davis. My professor played with Miles. I was expecting a more chronological depiction of the body of work that Miles recorded, everything from from Birth of the Cool to Kind of Blue to Bitches Brew. What we got was a post-minimalist exercise in giving an account of one's life rather than the full story. To be completely honest, I still want a full story kind of thing on this. This film may have lacked a complete rendering of Miles' life story on screen, but I believe one day there will be such a series that handles his origin with elegance. Major props to Don Cheadle for his performance too. See more Read all reviews

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