Well done

Rating: 9/10 (29 August 2015)

Straight Outta Compton deserves it's top spot in the box office. The negative reviews I've seen focus on the excessive obscenity in this movie, but honestly to those reviewers: what did you expect? This movie is about a rap group that popularized the use of excessive explicit obscene language and themes in rap music in order to portray the harsh realities of their daily lives. I think one drawback of this movie is that it does gloss over the not-so-pretty pasts of individual N.W.A members (ex: Dr. Dre's history of abuse towards women), but if you're going into this movie expecting it not to have graphic scenes of violence, sex, nudity and profanity, then you must have severely misinterpreted the trailer and forgotten what this film is about and who produced it.
My two cents on "Straight Outta Compton," for what it's worth is that it is a well done movie. As I mentioned, some ugly details are glossed over and embellished, but otherwise from my preliminary research, I think this movie doesn't do a bad job of telling N.W.A's story. The acting is superb and compelling. Ice Cube's son as Ice Cube was perfect, and I don't think anyone would have captured his essence any better than Oshea Jackson Jr did. I can say the same for pretty much all the other casting decisions. (Shout out to actor that plays Tupac - he has a 5 minute scene, and except for when he talks - he NAILS the look completely!) Great movie overall, especially if you're into this type of music. I'm not a huge huge fan, but after seeing this, I was really tempted to go home and download the soundtrack:)