NWA & Eazy-E: The Kings of Compton

January. 04,2016      
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Documentary looking back at the West Coast group who invented gangster rap. The original lineup of N.W.A consisted of Dr Dre, Ice Cube and Eazy-E, all of whom went on to be successful in their own right. The documentary looks at how the group influenced the world of rap music as well as the controversial life and death of Eazy-E and the career developments of Ice Cube and Dr Dre.

Eazy-E as  
Ice Cube as  
Dr. Dre as  
MC Ren as  
DJ Yella as  

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Reviews

Solemplex
2016/01/04

To me, this movie is perfection.

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Wordiezett
2016/01/05

So much average

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Hayden Kane
2016/01/06

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

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Mandeep Tyson
2016/01/07

The acting in this movie is really good.

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Michael Ledo
2016/01/08

This is a documentary of Eric Wright, aka Easy-E a "street pharmacist" who formed N.W.A. and then died from AIDS in 1995.The documentary was not very professionally done from graphics to soundtrack. It consists of a bunch old footage as people talk about Eric's love of kids, rap, drugs, and guns. The film is divided into chapters as we discover Compton had drugs in chapter one and in chapter two they talk about music style of the 80's but never played any of it. Yes, it appears the documentary was so low budget they didn't buy the rights to any music. So while we have a documentary about Easy E who is solely famous because of his music, we don't get to hear any of it. It reminded of that Jimi Hendrix biopic where they didn't have the rights to his music.The film is almost entirely of interviews of people talking about Easy. They could have done better but wanted a cheap product to get out quickly riding on the heels of the success of "Straight Otta Compton".Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

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barryjames-mc
2016/01/09

This is a low budget, sanitized and very poor documentary. No music from the artist(s), which is always a bad sign, no new interviews with any of the major players, although I do have to admit that I didn't watch the last 15 minutes because I couldn't take the blandness anymore, so maybe they got one in that last section, but I doubt it. A string of C list, seemingly connected, 'stars" mumble anodyne, largely pointless stories to camera, interspersed with often duplicated images of NWA, the occasional original interview clip, live clips with no music, and worst of all, present day, cheesy reenactments, shot in black and white and featuring the worst cast of lookalikes you could possibly imagine. A repeated scene is someone supposed to be Dre sitting at a mixing desk, with clearly no idea what he's doing, while someone sits next to him, waving a hand gun in time to the (fake) music. It is painfully awful, obviously a cash in on the recent biographical movie. It's a great subject for a documentary, but this is a hack job done on the cheap.

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