It&#39;s a shame that some of this film&#39;s structural flaws will keep many from seeing one of the best on screen performances I&#39;ve seen in years. Hiddleston&#39;s Hank Williams is a masterful creation: haunting, driven and soulful with the added bonus of Hiddleston doing his own singing and playing (no lip-syncing) including Hank&#39;s famous yodel. <br/><br/>While the film would have benefited with less marital squabbling and more music, it nonetheless takes one on an gripping journey of an American music icon&#39;s tragic life and short but amazing career.<br/><br/>Elizabeth Olson as Audrey, William&#39;s headstrong wife, does a fine job but I could have done with less of their relationship story and more about Hank&#39;s musical process. Cherry Jones is also excellent as Hank&#39;s bossy mom.<br/><br/>The stellar singing in the opening segment is worth the price of admission.

Growing up I was more familiar with Hank Williams Jr. and his music still I heard stories about the life and hard times of his legendary dad Hank Sr. and how that his life was short and tragic. With this film a biography typed called &quot;I Saw the Light&quot;(a hit Williams song)it&#39;s very informative and interesting as it shows the rise and complex life of a man who battled the bottle and women which all lead to his tragic young end.<br/><br/>Tom Hiddleston is in top form as the country legend he plays Hank to near perfection from his accent to his posture and movements and actually does a pretty good job singing Hank Williams songs. The film just really is a chapter by chapter turn in the life of the country western music legend showing his rise to fame sadly the fame was mixed with man problems like failed marriages and many different lady friends and Hank had plenty of kids with different mothers as they gave birth to them out of wedlock. And his biggest inner personal demons was his battle with the bottle, it&#39;s clear the sorrow and sadness of Hank&#39;s short life was fueled by alcohol and whiskey. Overall well done film that shed light on the tragic life of a young legend.

I&#39;m only 25 years old, but I have almost all of Hank&#39;s music and have read multiple books in high school about him (including &quot;Hank Williams: The Biography&quot; by Colin Escott). So needless to say, I had high hopes for this movie.<br/><br/>I feel like my high hopes were mostly met. I thought the movie did a very good job of laying out Hank&#39;s life and showing his stardom as well as struggles. I didn&#39;t like as much that it was rated R vs a PG-13 for &quot;Walk the Line&quot;, but then again, anyone who has studied Hank knows that his life was rough and he wasn&#39;t candy-coated by any means. <br/><br/>I think Tom Hiddleston does a very good job as Hank, though maybe not QUITE as spot on as I would&#39;ve liked. But when a big movie comes out about probably my biggest musical artist of all-time, I won&#39;t complain. From what I&#39;ve read, Mr. Hiddleston was basically trained to be as spot-on as possible, and when I saw the movie, he had me believing it was Hank. Elizabeth Olsen did a very good job as Audrey as well.<br/><br/>Overall, I quite enjoyed the movie and am anticipating any special edition releases when it comes out on DVD in a few months. Of course, there were moments of sadness especially toward the end, but there were also moments of happiness and (at least for me) a few chuckles. Although I wouldn&#39;t rank this as high as &quot;Walk the Line&quot; in my list of biopics, it was definitely worth the price of admission to me and I would totally see it again if given the opportunity.