Less Rabbit...More Eminem!

Rating: Null/10 (18 January 2003)

The movie its self was not half bad. I suppose it was just that I and many others that I was with just had a complete different expectation as to the plot. 8 mile is the life story of Eminem right? Sooo...Obviouly you would assume to see how he started out, his struggles and finally his rise to fame. If that's what you were expecting, your way off.

The movie concentrates on how he began. That's it! Theres no rise to fame, It doesn't end with the Eminem we all love. It's based entirely on Jimmy 'Rabbit' Smith, not the transformation of Jimmy to the Eminem we know and love. It just ends nowhere? He doesn't even get famous in the movie! It ends before we get the chance to see how he did. I felt cheated that I missed out on that. It was as if I was only told half the story.
Because of the fact that it only concentrates on one part of his life, the movie seems to drag on and on and on, like it's trying to kill time. You could've crammed the entire storyline into 30 minutes but it was stretched out so much that it gets boring. You keep thinking...Ok is this gonna go any where yet? You keep expecting that ONE SCENE that will turn the tables. That will make the movie start to get suspenseful and interesting. And you'll be happy to know that YES! That scene does exist! Unfortunately it's the LAST scene of the whole movie. So once the storyline actually picks up, the movies over!
I even heard a couple behind me in the cinema whisper once the movie ended `is that IT?' Yes, that's IT! But despite of it all, once you see this movie, you're guaranteed to see Eminem with a new respect.
7/10