Wonderful character development!

Thanks for the memories!

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

I must say that i'm a big fan of Tupac and i really like his music. But this movie is just bad. In my opinion it is the directors fault. All Eyez On Me had many intentions to be a very good movie but the director had to ruin it. The whole movie consists of random scenes combined. And it is so complicated that literally after the movie i was confused. I already knew the story of Tupac and the movie was supposed to (perhaps) clarify some things but instead it was confusing. If you want to learn the story of Tupac i suggest you just read his wikipedia page (which is more articulate) rather than spending 2+ hours watching his (bad made) movie.

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.

Having watched and enjoyed "Notorious" I was expecting more of the same, I was totally wrong. It comes across as preachy and whiny,but the biggest sin is that it's just so boring, how they managed to do that to Tupacs story is beyond me.