Iseerphia All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

L9 (LnineB) What I mean about glue is that the film has absolutely no transitions. It goes from scene to scene like a rapid fire assault gun. You never get attached to any one character except the lead and unfortunately other than looking like PAC, he didn't have the acting chops to carry a 2-1/2 hour movie. Every scene just scratches the surface even the ones that begs for more depth. I don't understand how The NWA movie can get it so right and this one loses its way, especially for someone like 2pac.

nammage I was 16/17 when I first heard a song by 2pac. That was 1993/1994 and I was a Junior in high school. I even saw him in concert once in 1995 or 1996. I remember thinking, "Man, he's short." He was 5'9", I'm 6'4". Biopics always have inaccuracies and fantasy mixed in so, while a drag, I tend to dismiss it as long as the core of the person and/or persons is still in tact. That's not this. This film crams so much of 2pac's life that no one part is expanded on. Here we have a 2hr and 30min film that says absolutely nothing about the man. This film lost me 30 minutes in. It was like watching a Hallmark paint-by-numbers film. It has a slow motion scene of 2pac in the recording studio. What? Slow motion scenes are used by people who don't know how to make films. They think it's cool so they insert it in a nonsensical way. Slow motion is only effective in certain types of action films; certainly shouldn't be used in a supposed drama. Yes, I realize there are violent scenes in this film but it's not an action film and from what I remember: no slow motion was used in any of the action scenes.When he's at the jail or prison after the white cops arrest him for being black (oh, jaywalking) and he's talking to that interviewer, one can clearly see the boom mic hanging down while they talk. There are quite a few noticeable technical mistakes like this throughout the film. All films have goofs and errors but usually one is engrossed in the film to either barely notice them or not notice them. I became fixated on many of them because the film was boring. 2pac was not a boring person. Also, it was like they were trying to use his songs as the basis of his story rather than his actual life; good and bad, as the basis for his life. From my understanding of 2pac, and I'm not an expert; I have all his albums (the ones he did, not posthumous ones) read his book back in the day etc., just a fan but this film seems to want to paint 2pac as an angel (him against the world "me against the world" see how it's song to life rather than life to song?) or something. He wasn't. He was a man who grew up hard, lived hard, and died hard. Did he like that about himself? I don't think so; based on his poetry and lyrics, I really believe he didn't enjoy that part of himself but that was his life and he accepted it. Many scenes show that this is song to life rather than life to song. You can see it when they play him singing entire (or almost entire) songs and inject his life throughout them. Also, if you notice right after something seemingly good; insert a really awful thing which make timelines irrelevant. I remember the whole "east coast/west coast" rivalry back in the 90s and 2pac was right there in it. Maybe it's me: I didn't see much of that in this film, maybe toward the end but...who knows. When you're bored, you miss things. I'm Southern (and white, if you were wondering) and my perception is: we didn't care. We listened to both equally. I grew up hard, I was even in a few gangs in my youth, one multiracial (black, whites, hispanic, asian.) Got out of all of it by my early to mid 20s (41 now.) You never really lose the attitude. That stays with you. This film just jams so much in that it became convoluted right from the beginning. Probably would have worked better as a mini-siries and/or tv show...or better writers but definitely a better director.

marc-168-917710 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.

sharco-29009 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.