Dissapointing with a very convoluted plot.

Rating: 4/10 (27 September 2019)

Just recently rewatched this and my main problem is lack of character development and the "plot," if you even want to call it that.
The plot isn't cohesive whatsoever. The plot starts out okay, I did like the introduction to all the main characters, but after that, it's all downhill. It's like this movie just skims through the NWA Wikipedia page very sloppily. That could work for a documentary, but it doesn't work for an actual feature film/story, it gets so boring. A feature film needs a cohesive plot and narrative. Even just random scenes happen just cuz they happened in real life or based on real life events. Just because something happened in real life doesn't mean you should put it in the story. When you're telling the story based off real life, you need to trim the fat. Like for example, Snoop Dogg randomly shows up, then we pretty much never see him again for the rest of the movie. His character and appearance adds nothing to the plot or anything. They just put him there because he's Snoop Dogg.
Also lack of character development. They are just mostly angry most of the movie, and no real growth near the end. I would've gave Easy-E the most to do, most character development, and humanize him the most because he obviously dies at the end. They also sidelined MC Ren and DJ Yella. I know they are the lesser known members, but that's an ever better reason to give them more to do, they had do be doing more behind the scenes that most don't know about. That's another problem with this movie, they mainly just skim through most stuff that NWA fans and most Hip-Hop fans already knew, like the basic stuff. If you're an NWA fan, you're gonna learn nothing new in this movie about them. So what's the point? Unlike the Prince movie, "Purple Rain," you learn so much about his life and struggles that most people didn't know before the movie's release. "Purple Rain," an actual good music biopic. I would've forgave "Straight Outta Compton" for just telling us the basic details of their life if the plot and character development were amazing and engaging, but they weren't, they sucked.
Then the movie ends with Dr. Dre saying, "I'm gonna start Aftermath." Cool, how does that even correlate with the rest of the movie? Barely anything correlates in this movie. As I said before, just because that's what Dre did in real life doesn't make it okay. If I made a story of my life, I wouldn't include so many random details all randomly stringed together, that's just bad writing, doesn't matter if everything I said actually happened. There still has to be a cohesive narrative.
And don't tell me I don't understand this movie because I'm not from the hood or not a Hip-Hop head, etc. That's irrevant, a good story is a good story. I'm not from the Hood, but think "Boyz-N-The-Hood" is a 10/10 movie. Doesn't matter what walk of life anyone is from, a good story is a good story, and a bad story is a bad story. Execution of a story is very important. I'm sure there is a great story of NWA somewhere, but this isn't it, because it's executed horribly. It seems like a cheap straight-to-MTV movie.