what's all the fuss about?

Rating: Null/10 (1 June 2004)

I saw this movie because it was available among the cheap videos. Earlier, when it came out, I heard good criticism about it, but Somewhere in the back of my head I thought, how can a rapper 'story of my life' be good? So I never saw it. Now I've seen it and the movie confirmed my earlier thoughts. I wanted to like the movie, because I admire someone who is afraid to seize an opportunity (because it's scary to expose yourself!) but who did in the end. I also like Eminem and his 'Lose yourself' has often accompanied me when training for a marathon.
But the clichés! The story is the way it is, I don't mind, but did everything need to be in a way that you knew exactly what would be coming the next moment? Had the characters been a little more subtle, the movie could have been good, but the lines were cheesy, the people-people interactions were cheesier, and the cheesiest were the outbursts of anger and the sex scenes. Didn't the director had the nerve to tell miss Murphy she looked like a suffocated dog on heroin in that sex scene!? Sigh. I wasn't impressed with her acting skills either. When comparing the movie to another 'true story', Monster, there is so much more depth in the latter movie compared to this one. It's a shame Eminem's life wasn't made into a better movie because it IS a fascinating one..