Eh ... movie just makes more noise than anything else

Rating: 5/10 (18 July 2016)

I was a teenager in the 1980s, but I never heard any of this music until the early 2010s (unless you count 1992 Lollapalooza when I was forced to listen to Ice Cube?). While the film is interesting in its exploration of the culture surrounding N.W.A, it's also pretty inaccurate from what any common-sense viewer can discern by simply doing some research. But hey, that's what sells these days ... Jason Mitchell, however, steals this movie with his portrayal of Eazy-E, and that character was the most interesting of the film, truthfully. We all know they toned down Dre's character for some reason, and they overplayed Cube's character (to the point of annoyance, no less as he comes off as a huge jerk in this movie). But E was N.W.A, in all its glory—for better or for worse, and Mitchell really lights up the screen. I've read all the lawsuits that are flying around about the film's misrepresentation of people, and then I wonder why the filmmakers just couldn't tell the truth. Is it because the facts wouldn't sell? Is it because the facts don't meet the myths that people have been buying for years from Cube and Dre? Too bad Eazy-E died two decades ago, because I get the feeling he was the only *real* one of the bunch. Watch the movie for E, basically; the rest of it is kind of just trash. Thankfully, I didn't pay a dime to watch this film, and thankfully, I've never given a dime to Cube or Dre. But I'd give some money to talk to Eazy, that's for sure.