- Studio: Paramount Pictures
- Release Date: Nov 14, 2003
- Starring: Tupac Shakur
- Summary: Celebrating the life of Tupac Shakur, one off the top-selling hip-hop artists of all time, this film explores Shakur's life viscerally and dramatically through his own words and music. (Paramount Pictures)
- Director: Lauren Lazin
- Genre(s): Biography, Music, Documentary
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 23 out of 33
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Mixed: 10 out of 33
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Negative: 0 out of 33
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88As you listen to his uncanny narration of Tupac: Resurrection, which is stitched together from interviews, you realize you're not listening to the usual self-important vacancies from celebrity Q&As, but to spoken prose of a high order, in which analysis, memory and poetry come together seamlessly in sentences and paragraphs that sound as if they were written.
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80Takes a look at the mans entire life and grants us an eye-opening look inside his brain. And now that the supposed be-all-end-all documentary has been made, lets let the guy get some f----- rest, okay?
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80A poet warrior of the first order emerges in this riveting chronicle of the brief life and times of rap superstar Tupac Shakur.
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60Needless to say, other voices -- any other voices -- would have given this legacy-obsessed film an invaluable context for such a fiery, scrutinized subject, but Tupac: Resurrection (with that fabulously unsubtle title) is intended to be more video bible than textbook.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 16
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Mixed: 0 out of 16
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Negative: 0 out of 16
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