Emin'em

Rating: 5/10 (6 January 2009)

But then again honey, if you did love this one, don't read any further. I was expecting some real funI was very disappointed. 8 MILE is just some bland schmaltzy melodrama about a kid making his way to the top in a wholly banal and uninteresting way . Now if this is supposed to have been inspiring and if indeed it did inspire some, good for them! I mean, it's nice to find out the flick proved of use. Art it ain't; fun, neither.
I was expecting a much much better movie than this schmaltzy averageatthebest melodrama; it was quite praised, and the director being who he is, and as a Basinger fan, I thought this might be up to something.
The poor script is, as a matter of fact, outrageously, and I mean outrageously bland and thin. The characters are nonexistentjust some cartoon silhouettes. Eminem's performance only amounts to some posing and dreadful posturing.
An aimless story about void characters.
Why did I expect something better, a flick of more worth? I guess I'm too like Eminem's charactertoo idealistic, I mean.
I guess Eminem did not continue his budding acting career; this is good, this is soothing.
But if you keep wishing to know my reading of the flick, then I think it's about a peed off kid who struggles to find a way developing his facility at expressing various rants and insults and slants in peculiarly rhymed language. I think that Slim Shady 's socalled verses suck.
The script is, of course, rubbish; no character really exists. 8 MILE is but a purposely educative and simplistic melodrama, extremely childish and awkward in Eminem's naive posing as Cagney and Dean simultaneously. In a word, pretty everything's phony. Mrs. Basinger, though apparently a favorite of the shady director, has got again no stuff to play.