Reviews

This movie was a huge disappointment.

Not only was it choppy and all over the place, but it didn't even get basic elements of the story right. The guy who played Tupac was decent but failed to capture the magnetic and charismatic part of Tupac's personality (which is the most important part). The other actors were also 'decent'. The fault of this movie lies solely on the director. Now its a very tall and difficult thing to portray Tupac's life in 2 hours and 30 minutes, but this was a HORRIBLE attempt. The movie's scenes flowed inorganically from scene to scene, and many of the things portrayed did not even happen in Tupac's actual life. While Jada's actress did a good job acting, almost all of her scenes actually were untrue and did not happen in real life ! Also, it seems as though the director doesn't even intimately know Tupac. The movie failed to focus on the charismatic and important parts of Tupac and solely focused on the hard/thug side. There was no scene about Poetic Justice, him living in the shelter, or the tragedies in his childhood from Baltimore. There is no mention of his projects to bring the community together and stop gang violence toward the end of his life. No mention of him prophetically predicting his own death. No mention or description of his decent into misery and hopelessness. There was a lack of the community part of him and an emphasis of the hard and thug side.

One of the biggest things about Pac, was the way he talked and used God-like metaphors when he was speaking. It was prophetic and brought a certain chill to his words. This was taken completely out of the movie! In the Death Row East interview, they literally changed what he said and took out his comparison of Juda was to Jesus, and altered what he said for absolutely no reason! When you listen to the real interview and the fake interview, they changed it and actually made it worse than the real one. What could possibly motivate the director to change the real interview for a fake one?

There were multiple characters introduced without a backdrop or explanation of who they were. I will not mention the scenes due to spoilers but there were two characters (who were unexplained and not introduced) that would randomly come and give him advice, and be shown committing confusing and unexplained acts of violence a second later.

The director is to blame far more than the actors. The actors would have been decent if given a better script and direction. It is a tall order to fit all of Tupac's life into one movie. However, this did not pull off an average or decent attempt at it. It was worse than average and offended Jada Pinkett Smith and disgraced Tupac's legacy.

Somebody has to re-do this movie as soon as possible !!!!!