The Story of N.W.A. on a Grand Scale.

Rating: 9/10 (1 September 2015)

Straight Outta Compton follows a group of young adults trying to put their hometown Compton on the map through there love of the music gangster rap.
I wanted to see this film from the moment I saw the trailer on my Facebook news feed back in February. I was very excited to see it as I am a life long hip hop fan. This biopic was overall very good. To start this film is not just about N.W.A. you see their love for Rap and Hip Hop, and a true inspirational story filled with gangsters, drugs, money, greed, manipulation and police brutality..
Firstly the acting was top notch like I think apart from some of the extras (some of the 'party girls') the acting was outstanding not only could they act but they sounded just like the real people they were playing I didn't think the people who played Snoop and Tupac LOOKED too much like the real people but they had there voices spot on! and there mannerisms down to a tee especially Keith Stanfield who played Snoop the scene where he starts rapping the opening lines to Nothing' But a 'G' Thang were brilliant. As for the main cast of N.W.A. They all looked just like young versions of the real life counterparts Corey Hawkins as Dr. Dre was superb I really believed he was a young Dr Dre the same goes for the rest of the group. Jason Mitchell looked so much like him it was scary, the concert scenes when they zoomed in on him rapping I couldn't believe how much he looked like him.
What helped you believe the actors these iconic stars, is the script. It felt very real, for the most part. The times it didn't feel so real are the scene when Dre stood up to Suge Knight (I have my doubts that he really stood up to the infamous Suge Knight anyway, like that at least) For the most part tho it did feel very real, talk between Ice Cube and Jerry Heller (Paul Giamatti) about his contract, Eazy-E when he was trying to rap Boyz-N-The-Hood all felt very authentic. The crazy parties in the hotel rooms are just how you'd imagine they'd be people saying the film disrespected women or whatever I have to respectfully disagree I think that was just what it was like in the late 80s and early 90s.
The film looked incredible the cinematography was fantastic the shots of the Compton area and N.W.A. concerts were ace. The directed was very good too I loved the scene when Ice Cube was recording his diss track 'No Vaseline' how he cut between him recording it and Jerry, Eazy and co. were listening to it for the first time. I loved it.
This film is not without faults. The film showed them making Straight Outta Compton and then blowing up then splitting up and then making up. but everything that happened, to me at least, was common knowledge. Now I know to the majority of the audience that see this film wont know a few things but I felt having the likes of Dr Dre and Ice Cube working on the film its self and after seeing it obviously having a rather big say in what goes into the film why they wouldn't add things that happened that you cant find on a wikipedia page. Just little things that only Dre and Cube could of told even if it would of been a 10 second thing like a joke or a scene but something so you got something more than just what you can find out on the world wide web. (Like the guy with his pants on getting made to make a toast stuff like that that actually happened that is not common knowledge.) The whole Dr Dre beating thing I think could of been added in but really I don't think its THAT necessary I think ether way the film didn't lose anything with taking it out. They handled the ending so well with Eazy's death and them mending feuds. The fact MC Ren, DJ Yella and D.O.C went completely missing for large chucks of the film frustrated me not so much during the last half of the film but the production of Straight Outta Compton the reason I love the album so much is the fact everyone had a role to play and they didn't show that enough/at all for me, even if it was little clip like Ren on the drums would of sufficed. I don't think this could of been helped but I did think it dragged for portions of the film. this wasn't helped by me seeing one of the later showings after a busy day.
Overall this was a very successful Biopic with fantastic acting, directing and of course music.