I liked it

Rating: 8/10 (20 June 2003)

Eminem can act! Who'd have thought? 8 Mile is a great movie about a young man's struggles in suburban Detroit. (Please note: this is NOT Eminem playing himself. He even explains in the DVD that if he were playing himself, his character would have been very limited.) It involves a gang war between the 313 and the Free World gangs. The fight scenes are realistic, but nobody gets killed. And above all, at the end they settle things with words and not violence. Interesting.
And I absolutely loved the rap battles, they were hilarious and filled with cold disses.
The only thing I found to be out of place in this movie is Brittany Murphy's character. The mindless sex that her character brings to the movie offsets many things about it. The factory scene was in really bad taste too.
Overall, 8/10. PS, I'm not a big fan of rap, but i loved this movie.