An entertaining watch, but the producers Cube and Dre looked out for there best interests. They forgot to give proper footage to Ren and Yella.

Rating: 6/10 (14 August 2015)

Straight Out Of Compton, while entering the theatre as a fan boy, I told myself that I was going to leave all biases aside and I did,I just looked at the movie as any other story, not a story of a group I idolized since a young age.Therefore whatever I saw on screen was still pleasantly entertaining. But I would still like the point out that since film was produced by Ice Cube and Dre, they where shown to be the smart good guys, and the likes of DJ Yella, Mc Ren had almost no screen space, we didn't get to know any of there back story etc. However the film did outline the ups and downs of Rap group NWA in a fast, and entertaining manner. The 2hr 30 min length time breezed through. Also the film outlined many things that even fans didn't know about the group, like the involvement of Suge Knight in NWA, how Jerry Heller was reason of the rise and destruction of the group etc.
Story wise the film is pretty much about the rise and fall of the Rap group NWA. The story mainly follows the life of Eazy-E, Dr Dre, and Ice Cube.
Acting wise all the newcomers have done a decent job, the experienced Paul Giamatti as Jerry Heller is the best of the lot, he comes up with a mature act.
It was nice to see that the film was not only limited to just NWA, we got to see the emergence of Ice Cube as a solo artist, how Dre started Death Row with Suge, how Snoop Dog and 2pac came up in the rape game. Also seeing topical issues in the film such as the violence against blacks by the cops, the huge gang and drug culture in the area of Compton. With this one gets too see how NWA came up with the music they did.
Overall even though the second half of film does began to sink a little, with a slow pace, and not much entertainment on screen. Somes scenes in the film do seem corny also.The film as a whole does stay on to be a very entertaining and well done. Dir F Gary Gray has made an authentic film with the story he was given, even though it seems the producers interest where looked after more in the film, with a lot of scenes either made up for entertainment reasons or blown out of reason. Seem like the producers want to make themselves look the best. But I did love the Eazy-E tribute, RIP E. So if your a fan of the group its a must watch.
3.25/5* or 6.5/10