...i must stand back in awe at the sheer genious of this video. i had high hopes, but this knocked them out of the water. this is a great tribute to possibly the greatest recording artist of all time.

This video is great. Beautiful song. I was suprised you had Johnny Depp in it! He's amazing. This video had so very talented people in it, I'm glad this was made.

he still grabs at your soul.

Johnny Cash Will Always Be A Legend, But In this video, they had people in it, who didn't even know Johnny Cash. They had the write idea, But I'm not sure Johnny Would like all those celebs in there. He would go out into the world, not just stay in Hollywood.
R.I.P
Johnny Cash

Ever since this song came out Ive been looking forward to the video.  But I can't watch it.   It says DUE TO COPYRIGHT LAWS THIS VIDEO CANNOT BE BROADCAST OUTSIDE THE U.S. 

Great work guys. 

Guess i'll have to wait to see it on CMT. 

I could hardly sleep last night ,I wanted to see this video.  Well ,I love the song and have loved all the songs on this album since i got it.  But I have to say I was very  disappointed today  when I saw this video. Its not at all what i thought it would be. It is just a bunch of faces on the screen.   Most of them have no connect with John or his music and especially not his way of life. I don't feel that it represents Johnny Cash at all.

I think what some people are missing is that each person in this video was deeply affected by Cash and his work and they all come from incredibly diverse backgrounds.  Not that many years ago, it would have been shocking to imagine that individuals (artists all of them!) that are this diverse would be so influenced by a young white man, born in the early 1930s in Arkansas, who sang "country" music set to the simplest, sparest bass line.  Like others have already stated, each person in the video has already expressed their profound debt to Cash in the past - - some when he wasn't so incredibly popular (when, believe it or not, he couldn't get air time on radio stations that should have been ashamed to shun a pioneer of their genre). 

I think Johnny would have been (and is) proud of the video.  I also think he would tell some people to stop being so close-minded.  For example  -- why stereotype Jay Z?  He is a man that has gone through a shitload and may be finally enjoying his wealth.  So what?  Why don't you go listen to his "99 Problems" - - don't you see Cash's influence in the song (especially the second verse)?

Cash's music was often dirty, bloody, impolite.  He spoke to the "lowest" of society.  His songs, in some eras (and, if performed by other artists in their own styles/genres) would have been considered (and were considered) depraved even.  He sang about killing his wife Delia.  Duh.  How is this different (aside from the vernacular) than some of the "crudest" rap? 

Cash was both a sinner and a saint.  And his music (and this video) points out the commonalities in all of us.  We are all very, very different - - yet, more importantly, THE SAME.  I think that is the message Cash always meant to deliver - - and, I think, this video delivers it as well. 

AND, frankly, maybe I'm too much of a pragmatist - - but if putting Justin Timberlake or Kanye West (both of whom, as others have pointed out, have spoken about Cash's deep influence) in a video gets one more kid to listen to a Johnny Cash song for what it is and stops thinking of it as " old-fashioned country" (hmmm, a stereotype that was once used to lambast him and his music in the 80s  - - just as you are stereotyping Jay Z's music as music that you apparently just "can't get" because of the source), then I don't really give a crap. 

To be honest, I think I own at least 40+ albums that Cash has recorded (or compilations of songs he has recorded that studios have put out; including Johnny Cash Reads the New Testament!) -- so I'd say I'm a fan who would not want his memory tarnished in any way - - but, if you really get to know who I think Johnny Cash is (and was), then you'd stop bitching and start loving.

Thank you!!!!  Nicely said.

 I had that problem too! So I went to www.cmt.com   and watched it.
hope it helps.

This video is a DISGRACE to a brilliant song.  Terrible!  Absolutely MEANINGLESS!!! How did they manage to follow one of the greatest videos ever made ("Hurt") with one of the WORST videos ever made?

Kate Moss? Travis Barker? Justin Timberlake? Chris Rock? Bono? Owen Wilson?

WHAT?!?!

What do these people have to do with anything?  And even if the presence of all these stars is somehow justified, the video was STILL STUPID. A bunch of celebrities looking at the camera with deep, meaningful gazes?  What a thoughtless, meaningless, B-L-A-N-D piece of CRAP.

This song deserved so much more.  What a complete failure and an obvious marketing ploy.  I felt NOTHING while watching this video.  Not a damned thing.  This might as well have been an ad for iPods or The Gap.

Rick Rubin... you should be ashamed of yourself for allowing this video to be made.

Wow that is one of the greatest videos I ever saw.   

I just watched the video and for people who don't understand it they won't like it but if you think about it everyone has been influenced by Johnny's music and I think the people in the video just wanted to show they loved him .This had to be real hard for Kris Kristofferson and he would not have just let anyone appear just for fame sake.LOVE the song and video.Johnny cash is the greatest.