CampoReviews Review of Straight Outta Compton

Straight Outta Compton (2015)

Straight Outta Compton is an awesome Music Bio Film

[8/10 · 22 August 2015]

Straight Outta Compton is a great movie. period. I'm not super surprised that it was good but i am surprised at how good it really was. This film is easily one of the best of 2015 maybe even one of the best music based films, or even one of the better biographical films of all time. The acting in the movie is pretty amazing given the fact that there is very little star power involved. The entirety of the cast is good in this movie, especially Jason Mitchell and Corey Hawkins who both have big futures ahead of them. Paul Giamatti was really good as Jerry Heller, but by far the stand out in this entire film was O'Shea Jackson Jr. just killing his role playing his own father Ice Cube. We cant forget about the music, The soundtrack to this movie is amazing and all of the live performances are really cool. i like the fact that they chose to play the actual music performed by the actual artist and just let the actors lip sync it, and this makes sense to me because i went in to this wanting to hear NWA and not some no name actors singing the songs. (which is what they did that screwed up the Biggie Smalls Movie *Notorious*). F. Gary Gray did a great job directing this movie its probably the best movie hes ever made and if not its the best since Friday. Though a few main points were missing from movie such as most of Dr.Dre's time at Death Row which was probably the high point of his musical career, working with the likes of Snoop Dogg who would become is most frequent collaborator and Tupac which came out to about 3 minutes in this movie. The Mid and Most Successful part of Ice Cubes Career where he hit album sales highs and starred in a bunch of movies, including two ground breaking movies with Friday which spawned 2 more movies and a cartoon show and Chris Tuckers Career, as well as Boyz N The Hood. Another couple missing points were Eazy E's helping legendary rap group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony get started, as well as MC Ren's Solo rap career or The D.O.C's anything really. all of these things are slightly hinted at but never fleshed out i can see that it would have been hard since the movie was already pretty long at a 2hr 27min running time, adding another 20 minutes would have made the movie drag to much. in conclusion this movie is great and is definitely worth a watch, i 100% recommend watching this movie at least once especially if you're into more old school rap. I rate Straight Outta Compton 8 out of 10