Straight Outta Compton presents what happens when Hip-Hop artist get the budget they want for their biopics, and end up with too much control over how their stories are told.

Rating: 8/10 (15 August 2015)

While the film is certainly too grandeur to seem like something VH1 would produce as an original movie, all the flashiness, nudity, and jokes, don't necessarily elevate this film into something which should be taken as a serious film. For with so much nudity that this damn near seems like the soft core porn HBO and Cinemax have late at night, with a better story; and it seeming that none of the NWA members are ever taken to task for their less than scrupulous past, to truly call this a biopic would be a bit of a joke.
With that said though, it is a very entertaining movie and does remain consistently engaging over its two hour length. Something which cannot be said for too many films. However, being that the film tries to rewrite history by making it seem NWA was just a bunch of young men whose lives were about getting out of the hood, getting laid, making money, making music, and dealing with police harassment, it becomes far too difficult to say this is Worth Seeing. Hence the TV Viewing label for the movie does hold far too much back, likely for the sake of Dr. Dre and Ice Cube's current images, and being that the emotional scenes don't hit you hard in the gut, Straight Outta Compton just ultimately seems like a TV movie which had the type of budget hardly any network would ever approve for the subject matter.