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Straight Outta Compton (2015)
R | 147 min | Biography, Drama, Music | 14 August 2015 (USA)
8.4 Your rating: -/10 Ratings: 8.4/10 from 19,552 users Metascore: 72/100
Reviews: 140 user | 162 critic | 41 from Metacritic.com
The group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood.
Director: F. Gary Gray
Writers: Jonathan Herman (screenplay), Andrea Berloff (screenplay), 3 more credits »
Stars: O'Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell | See full cast and crew »
Details
Official Sites: Official site
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 14 August 2015 (USA) See more »
Also Known As: Egyenes Comptonból See more »
Filming Locations: Los Angeles, California, USA See more »
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Storyline;
In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of how these cultural rebels-armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent-stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world's most dangerous group, N.W.A. And as they spoke the truth that no one had before and exposed life in the hood, their voice ignited a social revolution that is still reverberating today. Written by Universal Pictures
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Intense and compelling
29 August 2015 | by philpriestley (Suffolk, UK) – See all my reviews
This is a great film. The detail and the effort that been put in here is superb and it's wonderful to see.
Each of the actors is well chosen, credible and presents their chosen character in convincing manner.
The actors that play Dre and Ice-Cube are particularly compelling, but it seems wrong to overlook the portrayal of Easy-E.
This is explosive stuff straight out of the blocks and it never feels slow. It's a long film too, but it keeps you right there. I went to see it in the cinema with my wife and she'd just worked a night shift - she didn't fall asleep and she thought she probably would. That is a pretty good test for a movie.
The menacing figure of Shug Knight comes right off the screen too. The drama is both incredible but so real.
Laced within this film are real messages too - freedom of speech messages, racial discrimination messages, police brutality messages - which are really important because they were and are part of our times.
The big message is though - these five guys came from nowhere, a place where there is less than nothing to share - but with their own gifts, their creativity, their musicality - they left their mark on the world. It just shows that, it's always there waiting to happen, something new and unexpected, out of nowhere. The political elite can't ever stop that, it can't be smothered.
This is a great film that holds the torch for the power of creativity and self belief - the ability to over come it all.
Final mention - easy to overlook - this film is bringing NWA to a whole new generation who don't know about them. After the film was over I was waiting for my wife (bathroom) and I asked this young guy if he remembered any of the events he'd seen on the screen. He shook his head and said 'No, I'm only 16'.
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Great film. RIP EASY-E.
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