Wannabe gangster movie

Rating: 2/10 (22 November 2018)

STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON is another wannabe gangster movie charting the rise of a group of friends who start out as ex-cons and end up becoming worldwide superstars. Unfortunately for me, the subject matter is the music industry rather than drugs or crime, and I'll admit straight away that I have no interest in this NWA group or whatever they were called; I know Ice Cube from his acting career and that's about it. Inevitably this is a film that turns out to go through the motions, full of angry young black guys with a vendetta against society, singing songs full of hatred and misogyny. The film is one-sided and one-note throughout, with no depth whatsoever, and the attempt to make these deeply unpleasant characters sympathetic is quite laughable.