It was decent enough but I expected it to be better than "decent enough" considering the sky high ratings...
The acting was okay but I didn't feel like any of the actors truly became the real people they were portraying in the same way that for instance Jamie Foxx did when he did Ray, or Jamal Woodard for that matter when he did Notorious...
But they did okay, Eazy E was the only interesting character though for me... And maybe Ice Cube (who actually is my favorite in the real group but in the movie it's definitely Eazy), they clearly took out any negative things about Dr Dre to make him the "nice guy" of the movie or whatever but it just made him a bit boring...
It didn't feel like they went into the depth of the characters either too much; you didn't get to know who MC Ren was at all...
They pressed the issue about police always harassing them a lot which to me felt like a trick to trick the viewers into liking the characters when to me at least it takes more than that.
But there was always something happening, for better and worse, better because it doesn't get boring worse because it all becomes a bit superficial and lacking true introspection.
It's a lot though to take almost 10 years of time from 5 different people (although mainly focusing on Cube, Dre and E) and squeeze it into a movie so it's somewhat understandable.
No real surprises though, at least if you like me know your N.W.A. history.
The acting was okay but I didn't feel like any of the actors truly became the real people they were portraying in the same way that for instance Jamie Foxx did when he did Ray, or Jamal Woodard for that matter when he did Notorious...
But they did okay, Eazy E was the only interesting character though for me... And maybe Ice Cube (who actually is my favorite in the real group but in the movie it's definitely Eazy), they clearly took out any negative things about Dr Dre to make him the "nice guy" of the movie or whatever but it just made him a bit boring...
It didn't feel like they went into the depth of the characters either too much; you didn't get to know who MC Ren was at all...
They pressed the issue about police always harassing them a lot which to me felt like a trick to trick the viewers into liking the characters when to me at least it takes more than that.
But there was always something happening, for better and worse, better because it doesn't get boring worse because it all becomes a bit superficial and lacking true introspection.
It's a lot though to take almost 10 years of time from 5 different people (although mainly focusing on Cube, Dre and E) and squeeze it into a movie so it's somewhat understandable.
No real surprises though, at least if you like me know your N.W.A. history.