I enjoyed the movie, thought it was interesting, and agree that the performances were good ones, but couldn't help but think that the lives of artists or musicians are somehow always formulaic and this movie made no exception in showing the life of Cash. With elements like alcohol/drug addiction, bad relationships with their immediate family, a frustrating/stressful love-life, a period in which they stop performing or doing what they day because they've fallen to rock bottom, and always ends with either a message of redemption or a terrible "died before his time" type deal. It's as if I'd seen the movie already before actually seeing it.