Soul Men

Samuel L. Jackson and Bernie Mac play a Pips-like duo in the uneven but diverting cranky guy road film

The funniest bit in the crude but diverting "Soul Men" really makes you miss Bernie Mac, who died in August, a few months after completing the picture. Mac plays one half of the Real Deal, the Pips-like backup duo for a charismatic singer (John Legend) who eventually goes solo, leaving his former partners to languish. We're prepped by a brisk prologue and then, present day: Mac's character, Floyd, is being put out to suburban, manicured pasture by his nephew-manager, while Samuel L. Jackson's Louis ekes out a life in what looks like an SRO apartment. [...]

di Michael Phillips, articolo completo (3171 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 7 novembre 2008