Mitchell is a true find for E, a rapper with a childish voice who raps about sex, drugs, and murders, giving that iconic voice a charisma that makes it understandable why the other (more talented) members gave him the first shot. He had the cash (through selling crack) to get the studio time, had the first hit single (“Boyz-n-the-Hood”), and got the manager that knocked down doors to get the group signed and on the road, Jerry Heller (Paul Giamatti, playing a similar manipulative music manager role as he did in this year’s Love & Mercy, except with less yelling at the group for eating hamburgers). In the big sprawling story, Eazy-E (Jason Mitchell) owns the first half of the movie, which is appropriate because E was the first star from the super group. Dre, and Eazy-E were the original Empire. This is our first big rap biopic that’s larger than one personality: Ice Cube, Dr. Gary Gray’s sprawling biopic mostly gets away with it.
It does hit some of the music biopic clichés of witnessing the a-ha moments when iconic lyrics arrive, when paths with future stars intersect, when excessive living heightens growing emptiness-but F. is incredibly alive, entertaining, and, occasionally, incredibly relevant. Part gritty drama, part road movie, part statement, part Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and part Behind the Music melodrama-this biopic of the three main members of the rap group N.W.A. Some casualties in this regard were the death of Dre’s younger brother, a split-second moment that only touches upon the tension between East and West coast rappers Dre meeting his future wife, Nicole E’s physical deterioration and even one lighter but random moment where we see Cube working on the script for Friday in the background.Straight Outta Compton is a whole lotta movie. There’s a lot of story that needed to be pushed out in two-and-a-half hours, but rushing through the material leaves little opportunity to explore more emotionally charged moments in these men’s lives.
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is formed and the guys are signing with their first record label, Priority Records, the film devolves into a series of quickly shifting scenes woven in between a few too many montages that involve parties, half-naked (and some fully naked) dancing women, and clowning around making records. However, it eventually stumbles against a flood of information. remains relatable as Dre puts the idea in E’s head to invest money in their music and “reality raps,” as they call it. watches footage of a black man brutally beaten by a gang of police officers in the streets, we (in 2015) are dealing with the aftermath of events surrounding people like Sandra Bland. This struggle draws a direct line to the present day. The film is at its best with moments like this one, moments that encapsulate what life was like for these kids trying to survive not only the police but also gang violence and the harsh realities that come with wanting more than what life thrust upon them. However, it quickly turns into a frantic, acrobatic escape as armed police tear a hole through the home with an armored car and battering ram.
He pounds on his cousin’s door to settle a dispute about drug money, and it’s clear that things are about to get heated. The film opens with Eazy-E, aka Eric Lynn Wright.
That is not an easy task, but you can tell, despite its faults, that audiences will easily invest themselves in this story.įor one, Straight Outta Compton begins and ends on high notes, though it loses its way in the middle. Gary Gray (the man behind Ice Cube’s Friday) and his team of writers chose to address all of this in one film. As a colleague remarked while exiting the screening, you could make an entire trilogy of films out of this backstory alone - one focusing on how the group formed during the violent climate of Compton, California one about splitting off to pursue solo ventures and perhaps a third about Eazy-E’s struggle with and eventual death from AIDS. It’s more impressive, too, when you consider the implications of something like Straight Outta Compton, which is about the rise and fall of N.W.A. Though these guys have been building up their resumes for some time, they’ve been waiting for their scene-stealing roles. His co-stars, especially Hawkins as Dre and Mitchell as Eazy-E, are not to be overshadowed, either.
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