Impressive stuff

Rating: 8/10 (2 December 2002)

Leave whatever you like or dislike about Eminem at the door. See this movie for whatever reasons. Believe me, you will be entertained by it's honesty and avoidance of cliche. It is brutal, funny, and ultimately simplistic. But aren't the most memorable of stories that which use the fewest words, yet uses them with a grand purpose? To entertain us, not to preach to us. That is the foundation of this film. Filled with likable and dispicable folks alike. Each one reminding us of someone we talked to just today, or grew up with yesterday. And each time you think a scene in this movie will take the high road, it fails to do. Instead we have glimpses of real life, sometimes fun, sometimes ugly. But always real, maybe a little to real.