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I SAW THE LIGHT film review

– By Cate Marquis –

Tom Hiddleston is excellent but Hank Williams biopic ‘I Saw The Light’ is grim slog

Tom Hiddleston gives a remarkable performance, with some fine singing, as country music legend Hank Williams but it is not enough to rescue “I Saw The Light,” which reduces the singer/songwriter’s skyrocket career and brief life into a grim slog, plodding towards his death at age 29.

Any doubts that Hiddleston, a classically trained British actor who perhaps is best known to American audiences as Loki in the Thor and Avengers movies, could play the country music legend are immediately dispelled at the start of the film. The problem is writer/director Marc Abraham’s script, coupled with uninspired direction.

READ THE FULL REVIEW AT WE ARE MOVIE GEEKS:

http://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2016/04/i-saw-the-light-review/

 

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