good movie, but maybe too long

Rating: 7/10 (8 September 2015)

This is definitely a movie worth watching. The cast is very well chosen with young, quite unknown actors,which not only have a look remarkably similar to the original group but act very well. Especially O'Shea Jackson Jr. plays his father well and very authentically. The movie tries to depict the situation in Compton in the 80s and early 90s with crime and racism against young African-Americans all around, especially coming from policemen. A situation which nowadays the public,thanks to N.W.A., among others, at least is aware of, though it has not changed dramatically since then. It is a good feature of this movie that it tries to explain N.W.A.'s fight for freedom of speech and against racism by using their music as a medium. The negative part about this movie is that it maybe describes the political aspects too short whereas the house-partying-part is way bigger than it should be, therefore the second part is too long with too unimportant features. Apart from that a movie definitely recommendable since it is still on point 25 years later.