Review of All Eyez on Me (2017) by Linttaflamingo — 20 May 2018

The music's good, but this movie can take a long walk off a short d*ck.

This film gets it immediately wrong. It starts with Tupac being interviewed in jail and it's done in a documentary kind of way with flashbacks and all, and it doesn't work. It feels so unnatural. The film basically jumps to different times constantly, and I had no idea when was when and what was happening. The first 90 minutes almost feel like going between four to five different scenes over and over again. It lacks creativity and every scene feels exactly the same with characters just delivering terrible expository dialogue. It's boring, annoying, all the dialogue sounds the exact same and the random jumping between different times and characters literally gives me no chance to even try to care about anyone else than Tupac. Sure, it's a film about Tupac but this back and forth running between random terribly acted characters gives me a f*cking migraine.

The film feels cheaply and negligently made. The colors are ugly, the directing is bland, the editing is ass and so many scenes are just done in the exact same spot that it feels like they just couldn't afford or bother to shoot somewhere else. So many times I was watching a scene and just thinking if anyone seriously even bothered with this wank. Tupac's audition scene to Digital Underground was probably the most slapdash made "scene" of the whole film. Also Snoop Dogg's portrayal was very forced in. He had little to no screen time which all of was very pointless, and his dubbing was so unnecessary and low effort. I think the guy can talk himself too.

But the weirdest thing about the film is that in a movie about a musician there are barely any music scenes. Seriously, this bollocks has only like two or three of those. The ones that are there are ok. The music is of course good and the scenes have some nice camera movement between stage and the crowd and Demetrius Shipp Jr. is very believable, but why on earth are there so few of them? Was the movie so goddamn busy to get back to the terrible exposition tosh? In this 2 hour and 20 minute movie. I do not f*cking know but this is bollocks.

The film does succeed though in making Tupac seem like someone who simply wanted his message out to the world in his music and it's respectable.