SpuffyWeb
Sadly Over-hyped
Stevecorp
Don't listen to the negative reviews
InformationRap
This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Kien Navarro
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
nungerskov
It was a dramatic, nice and lovely movie. It's a perfect movie, and I loved to watch it. The movie is a bit long and drawn out, but I loved it anyway
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.
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.
viewsonfilm.com
All Eyez on Me is my latest review. It's a biopic of the poetic Tupac Shakur. Tattooed, volatile, and sneering, Pac was once one of my favorite hip-hop artists from the 90's. At 140 minutes, the director of "Eyez" (Benny Boom) tries his darnedest to include all of Shakur's life. I'm talking from when he was in his mother's womb to his infamous death via September of 1996. It's a valiant but glossed over effort with a little TV movie shtick, a workmanlike pace, and some side characters that sort of fade in and out (Dr. Dre, The Notorious B.I.G., Shock G, etc.).Nevertheless, All Eyez on Me is still an absorbing drama. A lot of it is total, behind the scenes stuff giving you the Tupac Shakur you thought you knew. I'm not sure if everything is accurate but the film outlines the rapper as boisterous, tangled, and even kind of misunderstood. Anyway, I didn't gather why Shakur was falsely incarcerated for sexual assault nor why he was accused of shooting two off-duty cops in Atlanta. Also, I didn't know the whole side account with "Eyez" involving Tupac's mom (former Black Panther party member, Afeni Shakur). These are just a handful of examples because after taking in All Eyez on Me, I now have some hard insight into Shakur's complicated existence. For what it's worth, "Eyez" paints a detailed picture for most of the way. It's a movie in which you the viewer, never feels safe (much like the way Shakur felt for 25 years). In the lead role, Demetrius Shipp Jr. looks eerily similar to the rap legend. Not only that, he gets all of Tupac's mannerisms and tics down to a T. Being a novice actor who pretty much auditioned on a whim, Shipp's portrayal almost feels like an impression (as opposed to a performance) but it's still darn good. Now could "Eyez" have worked out better if it was made into an actual documentary? Maybe. I'm not sure if this has already been done but you could include some archive footage and interviews from the people who knew Tupac intimately. Could "Eyez" as a do-cu transport you into Shakur's closed-off world while stirring up tension in the mind's eye? Possibly but the real-life stuff is more subdued than the make- believe. I sometimes dig make-believe more. Bottom line: See 2017's All Eyez on Me. It's no masterpiece but as a blow-by-blow, biographical yarn, it's "all" good. Rating: 3 stars.