All Eyez on Me (2017)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Good idea lost in the noise

Fresh and Exciting

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Boring! There's literally no plot! This movie is an insult to 2Pac. Sub-plots start for no rhyme or reason and we barely get to ever see the music part of his life. The acting is bad, the cinematography is cookie-cutter do not watch this movie even if you like 2Pac. It's not worth it.

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.

Overall this was a good movie, well directed. They did what tupac would have wanted this movie to be about, his philosophical foundations, how it evolved from the black panther to a rapper spreading words of self love and change. I now understand the meaning behind the "Thug life" tatted to his chest. The one playing Tupac mother is an amazing actress. The only weakness came in the music early on, when they let the actor rap tupac words, that was awful, they should have lip-sync that part like they did the rest of the movie, I enjoyed the movie, and I will watch it again anytime I want to recall the greatest rapper ever.

I just got done watching this movie on HBO and it had my attention through the entire thing. It was engaging, well acted and produced. I guess my expectations were not as high as other reviewers. I didn't expect angels to sing and have Tupac delivered unto me by Charlton Heston-like narration. I expected a biopic about a talented young artist who had a lot to offer who was killed when he was way too young. That's what this movie is about. The movie doesn't romanticize Tupac and the lead actor looks and acts so much like him it's eerie. They show Tupac was in part responsible for sowing the seeds of his own death. I remember that time and there was an incredible amount of anger and hate in Rap music, the East Coast vs West Coast rivalry and with the gangs. When Tupac was killed a lot of people thought, well, that's the thug life. This movie shows that Tupac, despite his prison stay and public posturing, wasn't really about that life at all. He was an artist, who had incredible talent, sensitivity and range. This movie captures that. I liked the movie and will watch it again. As for the haters I really don't know what they were expecting.