Pure potential

Rating: 7/10 (11 December 2019)

"8 Mile" can not overcome the fictionalized celebrity biopic's limitations. There were hundreds of movies about young music stars and their parents, their early promoters, their first major breaks, and so on, most of them with more range and detail specificity than this one. This film only takes his hero to the moment he walks away, showing he can be a star. The entire focus is on his personality and his quietness in particular. The most important moments are when Eminem waits silently waiting for inspiration to hit with a mike in his hand.In this movie Eminem takes to a new level of clarity and belief the expression of absolute imminence, pure potential.