All Eyez on Me
Tells the true and untold story of prolific rapper, actor, poet and activist Tupac Shakur.
19 December 1986, Troy, Alabama, USA
14 February 1978, Grinnell, Iowa, USA
June 22, 2017
Under Knight, Shakur is propelled down a path of consumer commercialism. From there, All Eyez becomes less the story of a troubled revolutionary and more the tale of a brilliant black man whose talents are squandered by those close enough to do so.
June 20, 2017
Shipp Jr. fails to capture Pac's multiplicity, much less portray the depth of his talent.
June 16, 2017
All Eyez on Me is one of the most useless music biopics ever made-it'll be too confusing for newcomers and too underwhelming for those familiar with the work and the life of rap prophet Tupac Shakur.
June 22, 2017
A giant music legend such as Tupac Shakur deserves a much better overview than provided by this fictionalized, by-the-numbers biopic.
June 22, 2017
Tupac's legacy deserves better -- and so do the fans.
June 20, 2017
The film's director, Benny Boom, is best known for music videos, but he's done something remarkable here: He's taken a legend and made him into a man.
June 19, 2017
The last 20 minutes or so of the film try desperately to create drama out of an ending we all already know, milking every moment for maximum ominousness.
June 22, 2017
All Eyez could have been a much more powerful portrait of the artist who died far too young a man -- Tupac's own Straight Outta Compton, if you will -- if only it trusted viewers enough to give us the whole person.
June 20, 2017
There is a sincerity in the film's performed characterizations that is able to carry entire scenes, but also a confusion in what it insists are the moments that were the most meaningful to the man.
June 16, 2017
All Eyez on Me is rarely more than a faithful adaptation of the rapper's Wikipedia entry, so fixated on name-checking every footnote of Shakur's public life that there is no space to explore the experience of the man himself.
June 21, 2017
This good-looking biopic does the late US hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur absolutely no favours.
June 16, 2017
There's a lot of nostalgia, but few revelations; for the unfamiliar, it's probably a pretty decent introduction.
