Basically.
Just got out.
Let me just say,people concerned about this being some kind of hit piece or disrespectful to 2pac can put that to bed.
This is absolutely not that. The movie is respectful of the man and his legacy. The way they handled the rape charges and the events of how it happened made clear of that.
However,this is a paint by numbers biopic. This isn't going to blow you away,and it's not breaking molds.
The film is perfunctory and point by point of his life.
It's not a deep dissection of the man. It simply takes from event to event as a recap
Shipp is great. He looks like the man,had the mannerisms down and loses himself in the role.
The film even went a couple places I was genuinely surprised by touching on snoop/2pac beef at the end. Or his relationship with kidada.
There is a couple of eye rolling parts. The omission of the dre beef is strange. Suge is once again painted as a one note villain with no sides to him.
The acting and budget is fine,they recreate some scenes very faithfully. The jada/2pac relationship is a highlight of the film.
Where the film struggles is taking a deeper look into the man himself. He feels like a passenger at times. There's no real examination of the man which is a let down.
This doesn't deserve the bad reviews it's getting,and most people will enjoy it.
Hardcore hip hop fans will find things to cling to and rip apart because we know the history so well,just like SOC.
Overall it's a solid film,nothing amazing. I'll buy it once it drops.
That said I would love to see a more talented film maker get to tackle 2pac. Not a recap of his life,but maybe focusing on one time period.
It never hits the highs that the first hour of SOC hit,but it's better than notorious.
7.5/10
I feel like the best parts of the movie where how they handled the Rape charges and how they show those Pac surrounded himself with early had control over him. How he was manipulated and got in over his head.
After the rape case, shooting and jail his fate was pretty much sealed
Tupac was shown as the victim pretty much in this movie.
Yea the Jada scenes were great. And how both their careers blew up at the same time and how they kinda grew apart. I wonder how close they really were but all the while Im thinking she ended up with Will Smith?
I guess she was smart after all
The Juice scene was a favorite of most in the theatre. I think they showed well how thats when people started really seeing Pac as a real talent and star.
This movie was very enjoyable just off a hip hop/music level alone. It was good going through his music as it related to what was happening in his life and seeing performances recreated.
I will say the movie was too long and too short at the same time. The pace of the film was too fast and it just jumped around. It tried to include too much and kinda failed. and like I said it just ended in a bad way.
Part of it was really good like you'd expect in a hollywood movie and half of it was TV movie/Netflix originals level.
Hill Harper was good too as usual
hadn't seen him in a movie since He Got Game
he should play snoop if the dogg ever gets a biopic. Afeni did well out of everyone, Had me thinking it was the real Afeni in the movie. My beef with the movie was that it moved too quick and was skipping from one scene to another without any emotion. That's another beef i had with the film, it really didn't deliver that emotion that we all expected from a film of Pac's magnitude. It's not S.O.C. but it does a good job for what it is. I give it a 7