Black Snake Moan (2006)
Craig Brewer’s successful follow up to Hustle and Flow (and incidentally, Sam Jackson’s follow up to Snakes on a Plane), Black Snake Moan is best described using the words of a reviewer on IMDB.com: “[To those that] know little about Mid-South culture a lot of what goes on may strike some as cartoonish.” I nominate that comment for Understatement of the Decade, though it’s true I know little about Mid-South culture except for what Lucero tells me. A few weeks ago, I derided a performance of Jackson’s, but he was amazing (as was Christina Ricci) in this and I think the bigger issue is his choice of roles.
[...] torrent that is King’s output. John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson (who quietly is running away with the “most watched actor by me this year” contest) gamely slog their way through this film [...]