The surprise Summer hit justifies its popularity, proving to be a very well-made and engaging docudrama of the NWA story. It is visually and aurally immensely strong, with brisk and well-considered direction by F. Gary Gray, that elevates this movie well beyond being just a hip-hop Jersey Boys rise-and-fall tale. For a film of this length, it is to its credit that the incident-packed story has sufficient edge and only occasional melodrama that makes it consistently interesting to watch, teamed with absolutely powerhouse performances, particularly O'Shea Jackson Jnr as Ice Cube, Corey Hawkins as Dr Dre, and a magnetically superb and potentially awards-bothering turn by Jason Mitchell as Eazy-E. Ambitious in scope and burning with energy, the film does not shy away from issues of race and authority, but its only major flaw is that it is deeply one-sided and non-critical, at times uncomfortably so. Nevertheless, Straight Outta Compton is an extremely well-executed, nostalgic and thoughtful movie.
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