Good, not bad, but certainly no masterpiece

Rating: 6/10 (11 January 2003)

I tried to be as unbiased as possible while watching this movie, while I'm no real big fan, i like Eminem's music, after watching 8 mile, I can tell you his acting talent is pretty good, but its hard to tell he's playing jimmy or himself, he will have to do another, non-(semi-)autobiography, movie for that to see, the rapscenes(aka battles) are very nice in this movie, just for this I'd recommend it to anyone who likes that kind of music. Now about the movie itself, it builds up slowly, lots of details describing his youth(i guess), has some comedy in it, some drama, but overall i think it tries to show he(Eminem or Jimmy, hard to tell) is really not that bad of a person, which might be kind of exaggerated. I liked watching it, but i think the end should've been different, its like they ran out of film and had to make a quick ending....what a pity.
Recommendations: if you don't know what to go see and you don't hate eminem, check it out.