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.

Lee Eisenberg I had heard a few things about Tupac Shakur before his murder in 1996. At that point I didn't know much about rap. It was over the next few years that I started hearing rap and understanding that it was the voice of the ghetto."All Eyez on Me" makes Shakur's life look like a 15-year-old boy's fantasy: always getting to be around scantily clad women. While it also looks at the factors that led to the rise of hip-hop - poverty and police brutality - the movie doesn't really give a sense of why Shakur became the person that the world knows. I don't recommend it.PS: The movie mentions Assata Shakur. She was Tupac's godmother (unrelated to him). Imprisoned on charges of killing a police officer, she escaped jail and fled to Cuba, where she remains to this day.

blown_knee 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

phillawrence-32142 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.