Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Tupac's story is legendary. He is the King of Rap without a doubt. The movie tells his story. Good acting by newcomer Demetrius Shipp.

A series of snap shots of his life. Very disappointing, not what I expected. His history and his mother's history could have been so much more in-depth & inspiring but the directing is not what it should be.

Ok - so this is a retelling of a life and it sits in the context of reshaping Tupac in a black Messiah. This is the ''ghetto gospel" type Tupac - the black leader, the civil rights activist, part Robin Hood, part Malcolm X. I'd compare it to John Lennon in many regards - a man who sang ''give peace a chance' but funded terrorism, 'all you need is love' but beat and abused his wives, 'imagine no possessions' from his mansion and his rolls Royce. We don't really remember people - we have them repackaged and resold to us. Keep in mind the album's the TuPac estate has released since he was murdered - this man was a devastatingly charismatic product - but he still is, full of allure, and ultimately (even now) cash.This film offers little outside of repackaging Tupac as a hero and a victim. General all around 'good guy'. This film fails to highlight just how spiteful his rivalry was with Biggie. This film manages to look at Suge Knight without having any of the evil attributed to Tupac (who is portrayed as a captive of some sort). Likewise the film fails to address Biggie. Dr Dre is blink and you miss him. It would seem that this film is so scared to address Diddy that it replaced him with an entirely fictional creation. And so dies the integrity of the project.If you want to find stuff out - check out Nick Broomfield's documentary - which is brave, really brave, and properly authentic. Whether you agree with the hypothesis offered by Broomfield or not, at least he offers you an argument. This movie is a half work of fiction and it is too scared of getting sued to speak out. What could be more ironic than a biopic on Tupac too scared to speak out?!In truth the only thing going for this film is the fact that it secured a legitimate sound track. Unlike that garbage Jimi Hendrix fiasco where they had none of his actual music (believe it or not). This being said, the sound track is the sanitised and politically correct version of Tupac - not the eviscerating, take it or leave it, angry Tupac that exploded the rap scene. Look - end of story - I may not know Tupac (I doubt that I do) but I know this isn't Tupac. This is Tupac for dummies. This is 'come and get your Tupac t-shirt' Tupac. I'm not a mug. Someone needs do redo this. Get some research. Go and write something explosive that explores the drugs, alcohol, ugliness, the FBI surveillance, the blazing trail that ended in sheer bloody las Vegas murder. In neon. But to hell with this. And for God's sake point the finger at someone. He wasn't shot by the tooth fairy.

So I don't review unless a movie is really bad or really good. This is the former. It really is best viewed as white noise, something playing on TV while you do something else.It kind of went straight to that level in the first 5 minutes. The most horrible and cliche gimmick in any movie is a when the story is being told by the main character to a camera. "Sex, Lies and Videotapes" is the only exception for this working because it was the first time it was done. Then the "interview" on the courthouse steps by Tupac's mother was so horrible. It just is the worst thing in the movie. It's another cliche and it's not done well.Basically the whole movie is a cliche, it's like the writer had a mad lib for writing a script. By the way, writing is up there with directing and art department for worst part of the movie.The acting was stiff, though I don't blame them, the script sucked. Most actors are good and maybe they look like the people in real life, but they sure didn't get the characters, never once was I thinking I was watching anything other an average actor who just reads lines rather than becomes a character.The other reviews here are correct, it really is just random scenes with no story, most of which are completely here say. The facts about Tupac are confused with the character of Tupac. Meaning, there's a lot of fake news about his life, but people love the idea of Tupac the legend rather than Tupac the real life person. If you're making a movie, pick one or the other, don't mix truth and fiction.It's a straight to DVD movie that looks like it could have been released in 2002, in the same vain as Benny's other movies. Though I am happy Digital Underground was featured, people forget that was Tupac's first rap character, then he started copying Easy E's gangsta style.