The movie embodies the story of music with jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (Don Cheadle). It is these events that embody the story of this man in the 1970s, as Miles Davis tries to restore his new tapes in order to gain fame.
If you're looking for a conventional bio-film, you'll be disappointed. If you want to get inside the head of the ingenious, erratic, enigmatic high priest of jazz, fasten your seat belt and enjoy the ride.
Writer-director-star Don Cheadle gives a towering performance that the film simply can't keep up with; he's truly on his own, which is perhaps the way Davis would have wanted it.
Miles Ahead is nothing anyone's going to fall in love with, but something interesting in its approach to stroke your goatee to, like those jazz albums you pretend to like.
