All Eyez on Me (2017) User Reviews (168)

What is the Hate All About?

[jburtonprod-802-759029 · 7/10 · 28 January 2018]

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.

All Eyez On Me

[brandon_foore · 6/10 · 7 February 2019]

Clearly attempting to capitalize off the success of Straight Outta Compton, All Eyez on Me is a decent biopic that glosses over and ignores what made Tupac a legend. Focusing mostly on his rap career, his rise to fame, his conflicts with Biggie and Bad Boy Records and his untimely and still unsolved murder, it glosses over his activism, his poetry and his captivating artistry. Tupac was an incredible human being who died too young and this film doesnt do enough justice to his legend

A well structured interesting presentation of a story you may already know

[jmarinko925 · 7/10 · 26 July 2017]

Upon viewing the trailer for All Eyez on Me I had mixed emotions of seeing a retelling of Tupac's life story. The previous film Tupac Resurrection had done such a wonderful job of presenting his story (in his own words nonetheless)that I saw a film about him doing more harm to the legends legacy than good. I was pleasantly surprised as All eyez on me delved into Tupac's revolutionary upbringing and background. I understand many aspects of the film were fictionalized for maximum dramatic effect and perhaps it was in poor taste to reopen some old wounds. That aside the lead actor portrayed Tupac beyond expectation. He had me believing in his portrayal of Tupac the entire film his humor, anger and intensity were all present. The film succeeds as a period film as well as the late 90's California Love time frame times earlier are captured to a tee.

I can recall the late great sportswriter Dick Schaap expressing sadness that children growing up at that time were completely unaware of who two sport legendary athlete Bo Jackson was. It was his feeling that such a talented and impressionable figure from our past should not be forgotten. When asking myself if this film was at all necessary I share his sentiment with regard to Tupac as he should also not be forgotten. It is for this reason that a film like this is still relevant as well as important.

VIEWS ON FILM review of All Eyez on Me

[burlesonjesse5 · 7/10 · 30 October 2017]

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.

Way too serious

[blown_knee · 28 January 2018]

I watched this movie hoping to hear some good music and see the Biggie vs. Tupac Rivalry. Instead Politics and racism run rampant during the 2 hr 30 min movie, way too long. Def not fun and def not enough music. Plenty of social issues and half truths that are partially explained . My rating is that it def blew my buzz

Love Tupac...not this film tho :(

[adam_rasta · 6/10 · 22 August 2017]

As a Tupac fan, i really wanted to like this film...John Singleton/Antoine Fuqua where are you? Its worth a watch, but if your looking for answers and or clues this movie doesn't really have it. The Biggie & Tupac documentary's are much more informative. Props to Darius Shipp JR, he definitely looks the part but he doesn't sound Like Pac and imo he moves/carrys himself different too.

RIP 2PAC

Terrible film. Just bunch of random scenes with no story

[sam_smithreview · 2/10 · 20 June 2017]

Damn!! Had the so called pleasure of seeing this so called Biopic of Tupac today, and well as you can see by my rating and the title it is not good. But do not think i am a hater, I love most films. And for the people who know me, they know how much I admire and love Pac. So it was incredible disappointing to see this garbage. It baffles me how even the actors involved were okay with this. This film has just bunch of random scenes, which have no connection to one an another and no introduction to lead them in, it was like the writers, and i do mean writers! because there was 3 decided to put random scenes and then were like "How are we going to connect them? what will be their part in the overall story" and the director replied "Who cares, we will show the audience the progression from Tupac from child to adult and have it in between interview with him, trust me it will look cool" But it didn't. Not only that, but some of them were not introduced or had any real meaning to the story, while others were complete lies. Jada Pikett-Smith came out and said every scene involving her was a lie and never happened! What?! Gotta be joke, right?... Nope, its true. She came out and publicly said it. I cant believe that after such great story telling biopics like Notorious B.I.G and N.W.A we get this piece of trash! I'm sorry but this movie was terrible. They made Pac look like an idiot. its that simple, he listened and agreed with people in the film from first contact, his actions and rise to fame were overlooked by him acting like a spoilt brat. his charisma and portrayal of thug life, gangster type was non-existent as he coward back from any real decision in the film. Do yourself a favor and watch Tupac: Resurrection 2003 documentary then this film! It is much better.

Decent

[tomcrew-52093 · 6/10 · 11 January 2019]

I'm not a fan of the Rap scene but I found the film enjoyable to watch for being about music.Never followed Tupac so I can't say if most of the things that happened were true,never even heard of him until 3 yrs after his death, I think he was a revolutionary figure a bit like Bob Marley telling the struggles of being a black person getting his message across and his ideals to make his life better to make his family cared for.But his life went wayside with the trappings of fame and fortune.

All eyez on me has a good casting choice in Demetrius Shipp Jr, sadly that's about the only positive. On the whole this is just a paint by numbers set of events that does very little to explore the man behind the music with any real depth.

Tom crew

Need To Re-make Tupac BioPic Immediately !

[bukharihassan36 · 2/10 · 20 June 2017]

This movie was a huge disappointment.

Not only was it choppy and all over the place, but it didn't even get basic elements of the story right. The guy who played Tupac was decent but failed to capture the magnetic and charismatic part of Tupac's personality (which is the most important part). The other actors were also 'decent'. The fault of this movie lies solely on the director. Now its a very tall and difficult thing to portray Tupac's life in 2 hours and 30 minutes, but this was a HORRIBLE attempt. The movie's scenes flowed inorganically from scene to scene, and many of the things portrayed did not even happen in Tupac's actual life. While Jada's actress did a good job acting, almost all of her scenes actually were untrue and did not happen in real life ! Also, it seems as though the director doesn't even intimately know Tupac. The movie failed to focus on the charismatic and important parts of Tupac and solely focused on the hard/thug side. There was no scene about Poetic Justice, him living in the shelter, or the tragedies in his childhood from Baltimore. There is no mention of his projects to bring the community together and stop gang violence toward the end of his life. No mention of him prophetically predicting his own death. No mention or description of his decent into misery and hopelessness. There was a lack of the community part of him and an emphasis of the hard and thug side.

One of the biggest things about Pac, was the way he talked and used God-like metaphors when he was speaking. It was prophetic and brought a certain chill to his words. This was taken completely out of the movie! In the Death Row East interview, they literally changed what he said and took out his comparison of Juda was to Jesus, and altered what he said for absolutely no reason! When you listen to the real interview and the fake interview, they changed it and actually made it worse than the real one. What could possibly motivate the director to change the real interview for a fake one?

There were multiple characters introduced without a backdrop or explanation of who they were. I will not mention the scenes due to spoilers but there were two characters (who were unexplained and not introduced) that would randomly come and give him advice, and be shown committing confusing and unexplained acts of violence a second later.

The director is to blame far more than the actors. The actors would have been decent if given a better script and direction. It is a tall order to fit all of Tupac's life into one movie. However, this did not pull off an average or decent attempt at it. It was worse than average and offended Jada Pinkett Smith and disgraced Tupac's legacy.

Somebody has to re-do this movie as soon as possible !!!!!

A bit disjointed

[fosterd89 · 6/10 · 31 May 2018]

Hmm. This underwhelmed me, which is unfortunate. After Straight Outta Compton, maybe my bar was set too high. However, why shouldn't it be? Tupac is one of the most famous (and in my opinion, best) rappers of all time. He had an interesting upbringing (Black Panther father, fine arts high school), and a still unsolved death by shooting. But, this movie was sort of meandering and even a bit confusing. I had no problem following it because I know a fair amount about Tupac, but I kept having to pause it for my friend so I could explain what was happening. It's like the movie was made with the understanding that you already know about Tupac's life. Good performances from the actors though!

Like a mashup YouTube documentary

[arabnikita · 2/10 · 30 June 2017]

The hype about this movie was unreal. Things like "We will make Biigie's movie look like a cartoon" were flying around everywhere....

What a colossal disappointment. To have the life of such a person and character like Tupac and mess it up this bad, takes a special kind of bad. I thought that a small scale studio would have done a better job in exploring some unknown past but instead it focused on all the mainstream points of his life trying to shove a song anywhere they could.

The whole movie had zero flow, nothing seems to connect to the previous or future scene. It just feels like a mash-up documentary that someone made on Youtube and threw in a few Tupac songs.

The point of the movie was to make people discover and appreciate the personality, vision and spirit of Tupac. To show that he was a visionary and more than just another "rapper" from the block who cares about money, ice and women. Tupac was like shown as someone who is only hungry for glory and needs to settle some score instead of reaching out to people and connecting with them through music.

I can't really find one good thing about the movie except the Tupac's mom who only felt like a real person. The rest of the cast is flat out trash with no previous experience acting anywhere.

If you are a fan of Tupac, avoid this garbage at all costs...

Completely underrated film...

[retailnoob1980 · 9/10 · 29 September 2017]

This movie has gotten a lot of hate...and I don't understand it. Fantastic acting, good pace, and very accurate (at least a REAL 2Pac fan will know it is). Personally thought it was better than Straight Outta Compton, which was also a very good film. Demetrius Shipp completely embodies Tupac, it's so eerie how much he looks like him honestly. Very good movie that you should watch for yourself and ignore all critics and their opinions.

Watch how the legendary Tupac became what he is today

[theresamansweto · 6/10 · 14 June 2017]

Movie: There has been a lot of movies out lately that have drawn a lot of peoples attention, but I got to see a preview of All Eyez On Me, if you don't know what the movie is about it tells the true story of the legendary rapper Tupac. Now as you know there is many hardcore fans out there for Pac and to get this movie right was crucial. Now I loved the movie but I think more thought and detail could of gone into it. When creating a movie your audience is going to be hardcore fans and people who may not have an idea of the whole story and watching the movie will give them a clear recount of the story that's being told, and I think All Eyez on me did that well. There is other movies about other legendary rappers like Notorious which tells the story of Biggie smalls and Straight Outta Compton directed by F. Gary Grey. In my opinion I think straight outta Compton is a better movie than All Eyes On Me but not drastically.

Actors: Demetrius Shipp Jr. played Tupac and did a outstanding job in doing so, he sounded like Pac, he looked like Pac, and acted like Pac and I think he was perfect for the role. Biggie Smalls was in the movie and the movie decided to recycle the old Notorious B.I.G from the movie Notorious, which I think was fine although in Notorious Jamal Woolard ( Biggie ) had the right weight for the role because as you may know Biggie was a massive person often being insulted for being fat but in All Eyez On Me, Jamal Woolard had lost some weight since the Notorious movie a decade ago and his weight was too light for the role in my opinion. There was a few horrible casting roles for this movie like Nas, the actor was great with his skill but no where did he look like the real Nas, the same case was also with Dr Dre, not saying the actor sucked but he does not look like the real Dre. Snoop Dogg however sounds exactly like the real Snoop its scary. I thought it was the real snoop doing a voice over or something, and he kind of did look like the real Snoop Dogg. Suge Knight wasn't recycled from Straight Outta Compton, actually the actor who play Suge Knight in Straight Outta Compton just recently got arrested for assault… guess he decided to stay in character. Danai Gurira played Afeni Shakur, Tupac's mother and I got to say she did an outstanding performance, you can tell she did her homework and it really felt like it was the real Afeni in the movie.

Story: Tupac has a great story behind him and it deserves to be spread out to the public, I really loved watching Pacs life on the big screen. I really enjoyed watching this movie although he had a magnificent story I feel like there wasn't enough detail and the movie didn't have its full potential like the movie Unbroken was accused for. The thing that bothered me was as an example in Straight Outta Compton parts of the movie thoroughly told what happened before they got famous, during they got famous, and showed some footage on after they were famous, now I'm not saying Straight Outta Compton was a perfect movie because it did have some faults but the way the whole movie was set out was great, but in All Eyez On Me it shows parts of his life before he blew up in the music industry and then straight to " Juice " and Death row and things like that and I think that's was let down the movie a bit.

Feedback: Go see this movie if you are a hardcore fan of the legend or if you are interested in watching his story, I really recommend it to everyone. This movie showed how much of a real person Pac was. In my opinion what really would of made this movie great is if they made Straight Outta Compton, Notorious and All Eyez On Me connected that really would of been great because there is a little bit of scenes that were used in Straight Outta Compton and Notorious, it would of fit well because of the recycled Biggie too. One thing about this movie though is that they made Nas and Snoop look real bad as if they were bad people. I could tell they tried to avoid doing that with Biggie and Suge Knight, but they did make these two look like bad people, not so much Snoop more Nas though. I'm not comparing this to 8 Mile; Eminem's movie or Get Rich Or Die Trying; 50 cent's movie because them movies are about before they got famous not during or after. All Eyez On Me did a good job showing the relationships that Pac had with people at home, family, and people he met. The action shots in this movie were done brilliant; scenes with gunshots and action scenes and things like that. I strongly recommend people checking out this movie on how the legend became who he is today. I enjoyed watching an important part of Hip Hops story, you would enjoy this movie more if you are already interested and love Tupac like me even though he died before I was born. I rate this movie a 7.8/10. If you want check out my Youtube channel where I review movie titles such as this one and others.

Str8 Trash

[derrickwilliams45 · 1/10 · 2 July 2017]

This trash had no business going to the big screen. You have a rookie producer and a rookie director tell the story of one the most iconic music figures EVER!!!!! The story was lazy. The characters were poorly directed., The best thing about the movie was that Shipp Jr. kind of looked like PAC. Other than that there was no reason to watch this garbage for more than 5 minutes. I looked like LT and Benny did all of their research on YouTube. It seemed like they took direction from the same people that probably game them money i.e. Haitian Jack, Sean Puffy Combs, and Suge Knight. This film was a disaster and a disgrace to the Legacy of Tupac Shakur. Its not meant to tell his story. Its meant to exonerate their benefactors. This is truly a poor excuse for a movie. This trash shouldn't even be on Life Time.

Disappointed it came out this way.

[BigMezza827 · 20 June 2017]

Being a huge fan of 90's hip hop, I was very excited for this movie, after seeing the Biggie Smalls Biopic years ago, I always hoped a Tupac Biopic would eventually come out, and I when I finally heard it was, I was over the moon. Tupac is one of the most revolutionary Hip Hop artists of his era, and deserved a great biopic, and having thoroughly enjoyed Biggie's I thought Tupac's might have even been better.

I then heard about the reviews, and was worried, could they really have messed up Tupac's Biopic, I mean really, how could you f**k up Tupac's biopic, I didn't want to believe they did, so I had hopes it was just bad reviewers, and I myself would really like it. As Biggie's biopic didn't get the best reviews, and I loved it.

I watched it tonight at the Cinema, the start of the movie set the tone. It was choppy, all over the place, and had terrible character development. I was looking forward to a great story of Tupac's early and teen years, but instead I got about few choppy scenes of him at different ages, with one big event happening, no real character development at all, even though I knew who Tupac was, it made it hard to attach myself to his "character" through-ought the movie. The movie made it seem like he suddenly became, famous, it didn't make any progression of his struggle at all.

The movie had way too many long drawn out scenes, and one or two scenes that were incredibly cringe-worthy and pointless, which led the movie to be a completely unnecessary 2.5 hours. The second half of the movie did get better and more interesting, but closer to the end of the movie you found yourself wondering, and unfortunately hoping, it would end.

The production value wasn't that great, the acting was mediocre, and the plot could have been done MUCH better. It's unfortunate the Tupac biopic I looked so forward to, came out like this. I really hope they will try to do this again one day, and do it properly. Straight Outta Compton is an example of a Hip Hop biopic done right, it was fun, exciting, and you really connected to the characters, this on the other hand, was bland.

No Eyez on You...

[ezramandela · 6/10 · 27 August 2017]

To be honest, this movie gets way too much hate than its supposed to. Judging from the trailers, and Biggie's biography, this was not something i was going to see on the theater. I was really let down by biggies biography so my expectations were not that high for this movie. I saw it last week, almost a month after it hit theaters and I have to say I was neither too let down nor was i impressed. The movie showed me what I already knew about Tupac, and i didn't see anything worth all the hype LT Hutton put into this movie. Apart from some things being pointed out as being false by Jada and others who were close to Tupac, you can get an actual first hand account of the events highlighted in this movie from documentaries and videos in YouTube. The people who developed the script for this movie did not in any way bother themselves with showing us detailed events in Pac's life, and every scene seemed to be missing something once we jumped to another scene. Even though he did his best, Shipp wasn't really convincing as Pac, and most of the acting in the movie was sloppy. Kat was okay as Jada. What annoyed me the most was Snoop's voice over. It was just stupid. On overall, the movie could have been better, especially considering the caliber of the person it revolved around. Tupac was a great story teller and poet, and he deserves to be rightfully acknowledged. He wasn't perfect, but he made the most out of the little time he had on this earth to do all the good he could for himself and those he cared for. I really hope that someday the right studio will actually buy the rights to make these biographies about artists and completely invest themselves in creating a rap movie universe. That way there wouldn't be any inconsistencies. In my view Straight Outta Compton was a great start, and the next movie should have picked up from where it left off, with the same actors reprising their roles where necessary.

All EYEZ On ME

[splaze · 6/10 · 3 July 2017]

I saw the movie yesterday and it was very interesting. It was definitely not that bad like almost everyone says it was. It was a good 🎥 but there was also A LOT missing. Demetrius did a great job with what he was given no doubt. You got to see from different perspectives, they only got 2 hours to screen it for the world so I saw that a lot scenes were cut. I wish there was certain scenes. I could make a whole essay on what was missing. But I ain't tripping, it was okay but it didn't give me that feeling in the end like 'wow'. I think when the directors cut comes out then we actually get to see the real movie. I heard first time they edited the movie it was like 4-3 hours long so you can imagine they had to cut a lot. 25 years of a man who lived a life of 10 men it's hard to squeeze that into 2 hours. This movie was missing their mission, but it's all good. I liked it I want to see the directors cut with all scenes.

Missed the most important aspect of Tupac

[realestate-45861 · 1/10 · 5 July 2017]

This was the greatest blunder and disappointment in movie history.

I don't want to get into the specifics of why the movie was bad. Just know that the scenes were choppy and didn't flow together, the story line was off, and it was widely inaccurate. Notorious seemed like a hit movie compared to this.

One of the most saddest parts of this film, was the complete way they ignored his paranoid and prophetic part of Tupac. One of Tupac's defining traits toward the end of his life was his constant foreshadowing of his own death and his paranoia during his daily life. Songs like 'Only Fear of Death' and 'So Many Tears' are evident of this. He would rap about being reincarnated, coming back a ghost, and his funeral being empty. He would talk about being killed in his sleep and his complete distrust of all the people around him. This part was completely and utterly not discussed in this movie whatsoever and removes the most interesting part of Tupac out of the picture. That God inducing and and death side of him is what has immortalized him to this day to a prophetic level and it is not even mentioned in the movie.

This movie has completely failed and this needs to be done over in another movie or perhaps a series.

I would give it a one out of ten. Do not even go to the movies to support this motion picture.

"Straight Outta Compton" gains its first mediocre knock-off movie...

[johnplocar · 6/10 · 24 September 2017]

"All Eyez on Me" is the biopic on the late and majorly influential rapper, Tupac Shakur. Chronologizing his life and the many events that would lead to his success as well as his untimely death in 1996 at age 25. Now I will get right off the bat that no I am not a fan of gangster rap. It's just not my music genre, however like I said in my review for "Straight Outta Compton" I do have a respect for it and the many people who helped form it; including Tupac Shakur. And unfortunately I feel like the man deserves a much better film based on his life than this.

This is not a bad movie, but it significantly struggles with structure and focus. This movie is trying very hard to cram in as much info on the rap artist rather than picking the pieces it needs to create a solid foundation for an engaging story. There are too many events and subplots that ultimately add to very little by the end, too many characters that come and go for so long I forget that they were in the movie and when they do show up I'm not sure who they even are. I legitimately forgot that Tupac had a sister until he has a discussion with his mother briefly mentioning her about an hour and a half after the sister's last scene in the movie. Another thing, this film is too long and should have been edited down to just two hours if not less than that. There are simply too many subjects that the movie wants to focus on, but it doesn't give enough time to any individual story line or secondary character that it is impossible to really get invested in any of it.

There was a supporting character introduced very early on in the film that was Tupac's best friend and teenage romance before he moved to California from Baltimore. This would have been an interesting relationship to delve more into and really helped humanize Tupac's character even more, but after sharing two scenes together she is entirely taken out of the film until an hour later. Maybe longer than that when they briefly meet up years later, but have supposedly been on speaking terms since him moving away. Then by the end of the film it's as if she wasn't in the movie at all, having practically no impact on the overall story in the slightest. And there are plenty of other examples that occur in the film just like that. In my opinion, either things like that should have been expanded upon to replace the needless fat on the script or cut entirely so it could focus more on the things that actually seemed to matter.

The screenplay doesn't feel like a fluid or cohesive plot, it just feels like a strings of things and scenes happening that never give much impact. To compare this somewhat to 2015's "Straight Outta Compton" that also was a biopic on rappers that dealt with many similar tribulations as Tupac, that film felt as though when the major things happened it wasn't just another thing that the movie would take a couple minutes to gloss over; they were big problems that they faced and had to overcome whether that be with the media, deaths, the government attacking their music, police physically attacking them. All those things happen in both movies, but with "All Eyez On Me" none of it ever gets enough focus in order to connect with. Only feels like yet another thing to just happen and the movie goes along its marry way, while with "Straight Outta Compton" all those themes were thoroughly dealt with in a way that feels like the audience feels the character's aggravation as well.

Another thing, and maybe this is simply personal preference, but how they dealt with Tupac's death just felt so...how do I put this...Hollywoodized? With hardcore foreshadowing that was so on the nose that I just wanted to yell at the screen, "Yes, I get it. He's gonna die. Get on with it." Taking what were supposed to be poignant moments between him and his girlfriend or his mother and just sucking the life out of it so it could basically stop and say, "Hey, he's about to die. He's totally gonna die so you should feel sad right here. Be sad. This is a sad moment ya see because he's gonna die". I don't like a movie treating their audience like idiots and this kind of did that a bit. I'm sorry to keep comparing these two films, but with so many similarities in character and story it's hard not to; but with "Straight Outta Compton" when *SPOILER ALERT* the death of Eazy-E comes to play in the plot, it is a legitimately sad point in the film and it never feels like the screenwriter is setting up moments with Eazy-E and his girlfriend like "Hey girl, I'll be back in just an hour. I promise that nothing bad will ever happen, because it will only be an hour. I swear to you on my life that I'll come back to you" Then have them both standing silently opposite sides of the door as they both contemplate going back or stopping the other before he inevitably goes off to die. Maybe all that actually happened with Tupac, but to me it just felt like a studio note including something I've seen before in other movies.

There are more complaints I have about the film, but I think it's not worth really getting into. I believe Tupac and the people who love his work, deserve a better film than this. A decent try, but maybe tried too hard and needed more focus in the right areas instead of squeezing everything the writers could into a two and a half hour run time.

Quite disappointing and saddening.

[renuka-44 · 1/10 · 12 July 2017]

I was truly disappointed after watching the film, basically because there was a chance to portray the life and times, the ideology and thoughts, and, the black and white of a truly exceptional being who was a combination of so many beautiful, unlovely, raw, and sometimes contradictory things and turned it into 2h 19 mins of superficial shots of Wikipedia references.

Instead of introducing Tupac Shakur to an audience/generation that he may not be known to, and highlighting his significance to those who do, this film manages to render him into someone below average: No one will ever watch this movie and think "Hmmmm.... now I get what all the hype surrounding him is". No one will see this film and comprehend why Tupac's legacy is so important. No one will see this film and understand why he is what he is.

The dialogue is not of a proper standard to narrate and discuss the life of someone who was a true craftsman with words. Many key events are done in an embarrassingly corny manner (Listening to "Who shot ya?" in the jail yard, witnessing a man being beaten by police as a teenager, meeting Kidada Jones, the entire *%$#&^% thing...)

For those who are "meeting" Tupac through this film, I advise you to go and watch his interviews and read his poetry, because there's so so much more to him than this. And I think I speak for many when I say that a more skilled crew of filmmakers should redo this project, he sure does deserve it.

Watching it got chilled, and it is good after all!

[sadistic_lovyr · 7/10 · 12 September 2017]

It didn't come up to my expectations, but it wasn't bad! In fact, I think it's better than the documentary. Yes of course they missed some important things, but it is a movie, due to the specific duration that it should follow and the drama that should be mixed up with the trues story, it had to missed some stuff. However, it's better than putting a lot of plots and a lot of scenes all together in 2 hours and the film loses its value, they had just put the important stages that he had been through in his life. It is not bad.

A series of bullet points told in cliff-notes form- Tupac Shakur deserved far better than this

[TheLittleSongbird · 2/10 · 11 July 2017]

Generally am somebody who dislikes rap, being a diverse listener of music while raised primarily on classical and opera as a result of coming from a musical family. However, once in a while there are rap/hip hop figures that are talented and have music that is more than tolerable for rap.

One such example is Christopher "Notorious B.I.G" Wallace, whose life was documented in the 2009 film 'Notorious', which did have issues but there were things such as the brilliant performance of Jamal Woolward that made it watchable. Another example is Tupac, whose life is documented here in 2017's 'All Eyez on Me'. 'All Eyez On Me' could have been good, for somebody who did have an interesting life. Unfortunately it really does fail to do this artist and his life justice.

'All Eyez on Me' isn't without redeeming values. Its best asset, and the only outstanding thing about it, is the lead performance of Demetrius Shipp Jr, who perfected Tupac's look and mannerisms to startling effect. The cast were largely miss, but there were a couple of hits in the form of Jamal Woolward, again as Notorious B.I.G, and particularly Kat Graham who really tries to give some heart to the film and to her scenes with Shipp Jnr.

However, 'All Eyez On Me' goes on for far too long (have sat through many long films and there are a lot that are brilliant, such as 'Lawrence of Arabia', 'Ben Hur' and 'Gone With the Wind) and such a length isn't justified by how little it does with its content. It does try to cram in too much, some of it in a short space of time, and doesn't explore any of it in enough detail. Some scenes were random and unnecessary, succeeding in slowing the film down and making one question why they were there in the first place.

With the information given in 'All Eyez On Me', it all felt like a series of bullet points, explored in cliff-notes form at best and at worst telling us nothing. Didn't care for the idea to spell out Tupac's every thought when it once again tells us little, as one can see 'All Eyez On Me' is very short on revelations or anything new (which is misleading as it was advertised in a way that it would tell us something new and un-told) which is frustrating and feels like a cheat for fans. Some of it, especially the scenes detailing Tupac's relationship with Jada, felt like the truth had been distorted for dramatic effect/license.

Didn't see the need for the narration either in filmed interview form, that was very clumsily inserted and basically spoon-fed events with no subtlety whatsoever. Amateur hour Youtube and music videos have better production values than here, and while the music was good a lot of the placing was random. It's all poorly scripted, flatly directed and whose bright idea was it to bring in performers and such as themselves and not give them anything to do.

In conclusion, Tupac deserved better, in no way does 'All Eyez On Me', despite Shipp Jnr and Graham's valiant efforts, do the man and his very interesting (which couldn't have been less compellingly depicted here) life justice. 2/10 Bethany Cox

Bitter Disappointment

[sukhib · 8/10 · 5 July 2017]

I am not going to bother going into the story,because whoever is a real fan will already know. The movie was a bitter disappointment,it almost seemed like a made for TV movie or something that should have just gone straight to Netflix.The story moves at a quick pace,but this is a problem. The movie is already fairly long 2 hrs 20 mins,but feels like it rushes through the story. The actors were average at best and no one really shined in any role.For this reason the best I can give is 5/10.

good not bad but not groundbreaking either

[moviehigh81 · 7/10 · 24 June 2017]

First of all I don't agree with all the negative reviews ! This movie was OK it is not groundbreaking as in you get to see stuff you did not all ready knew .(as someone who listed to PAC) The Lead actors did a great job they did their best to put their everything in their part (danai) she is just a great actor and you could really see she put all her effort into portraying (afeni) in the best possible way Also (Demetrius)played PAC well ..and everybody saying no ..well no one can be 100% like PAC ..that s just impossible! Only bad thing I can find...some scenes seem rushed the man had a turbulent live and they tried to push everything in 90 minutes they could have done this movie in 2 parts ..his mother was a big impact and influence in his life and since they had (Danai)a GREAT actress)they could have made the first part of the movie all about the bond between him and his mother Part 2 they could have concentrated on the actual highlight's of his career :) But all and all not bad they did not disgrace his legacy !

Fails to inspire

[kmtw · 2/10 · 17 July 2017]

They said John Singleton was trying to defame Tupac with his script, I'm starting to wonder if they lied. It barely touches on his younger life, glosses over the main bits and moves on way too fast. The dialogue is boring. The controversial sexual assault scene did not go the way he said it went so I'm wondering how much more was fiction.

One of the biggest things I noticed was that Tupac was almost too perfect. People know he wasn't perfect, he was flawed, he was paranoid and he had a hot temper to go with it. This movie skips all of that. It's too scared to show anything that may put him in a bad light, but fans of Tupac accept his flaws and respect him regardless. Perhaps the next director who picks this up should remember that.

Although the acting wasn't too bad and mostly the script was shabby, I've always thought Romany Malco would be a better fit for Tupac since he has a stronger on-screen presence and more acting experience.

Someone needs to pick this back up and do a movie that actually fits his legacy, I'm not even a big fan of rap music or Tupac, but if the Biggie Smalls movie and NWA movie got such great reviews and actually did a good job, I can't imagine how annoyed Tupac fans are feeling that this is by far the weaker of the free.

My recommendation, do not pay to go see this movie at the cinema. It doesn't deserve any box office plaudits. It needs to bomb to put the people behind it to shame.