Review of Straight Outta Compton (2015) by Ydnar4 — 01 Jan 2016

Straight Outta Compton is a great music biopic and I was kind of shock how much I enjoyed it. This film was a bit of a gamble where most of the main cast were fairly unknown actors. The film brings us a great story of the upbringing and the fall of NWA, one of the most influential rap groups of all time.

The acting is great O'Shea Jackson will certainly be a star in the next few years I have no doubt. Corey Hawkins and Jason Mitchell are great as Dr Dre and Easy E respectively. Paul Giamatti also brings another great performance as a corrupt manager as he already impressed me in Love & Mercy.

F. Gary Gray tells an interesting tale and I was never bored over the course of the 2 and a half hour runtime. One of the few things that bothered me was the bias that is fairly obvious if you are familiar with NWA before you watch the movie.

The feud with Dr Dre and Easy E is fairly faint and ignored. I think that this movie would be an even better film without Ice Cube and Dre producing because they were trying too hard to display themselves in a good light.