Movie Review: 'Straight Outta Compton' is classic American tale of aspiration ... - Evansville Courier & Press
Arriving at a moment when the battle cry of “F*** Tha Police” has been superseded by the equally urgent if more palatable slogan “Black Lives Matter,” “Straight Outta Compton” — an epic biopic that traces the unlikely rise and fractious fall of... “Police think they have the authority to kill a minority,” Ice Cube rhymed on the group’s signature provocation, “F*** Tha Police. Meanwhile, footage of the 1991 Rodney King beating and related 1992 Los Angeles riots are incorporated into the movie, which presents the members of N. W. A. as both activist newscasters — “I’m a journalist just like you,” Ice Cube tells a... Directed by F. Gary Gray with an apparent passion missing from the journeyman work that followed his 1995 debut feature (the Ice Cube-scripted “Friday”), the movie opens in 1986 in Compton, California, introduced as a militarized zone of racist... The next scene presents a softer Compton, where stressed but loving working single mothers encourage their striving children. Source: www.courierpress.com
