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Notorious Blu-ray
Please note this is a region B Blu-ray and will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play In music terms Brooklyn’s Christopher "Biggie Smalls" Wallace was a hip-hop superstar to rival Oakland’s Tupac Shakur In movie terms however 2Pac has long overshadowed BIG with the films he made as an actor and the documentaries that followed in the wake of his similarly-unsolved murder George Tillman Jr (Soul Food Men of Honor) aims to correct that imbalance with Notorious the authorised biography of the larger-than-life New York rapper Produced by his mother Voletta Wallace (played by Angela Bassett) and record producer Sean "Puffy" Combs (Derek Luke) Tillman presents Biggie as a bright child who grew up to be a drug dealer before finding his
true calling on stage only to be cut down in the prime of life In his feature-film debut Jamal "Gravy" Woolard captures Biggie&s complexity--the loyalty to his crew the disloyalty to his ladies (including Lil& Kim and Faith Evans)--but struggles to make him as sympathetic as the figure that emerges in Nick Broomfield&s Biggie & Tupac simply because the script relies too heavily on the usual musical-bio cliches Fortunately several bright spots elevate the scenario such as Anthony Mackie as Pac Christopher Wallace Jr as young Biggie and Woolard&s rapping which segues seamlessly into BIG&s (the soundtrack mixes original tracks with remakes) If Notorious isn&t a failure it isn&t a triumph either but Tillman has crafted it with love and respect and only a stone could remain
unmoved by the real-life funeral footage at the end --Kathleen C Fennessy
true calling on stage only to be cut down in the prime of life In his feature-film debut Jamal "Gravy" Woolard captures Biggie&s complexity--the loyalty to his crew the disloyalty to his ladies (including Lil& Kim and Faith Evans)--but struggles to make him as sympathetic as the figure that emerges in Nick Broomfield&s Biggie & Tupac simply because the script relies too heavily on the usual musical-bio cliches Fortunately several bright spots elevate the scenario such as Anthony Mackie as Pac Christopher Wallace Jr as young Biggie and Woolard&s rapping which segues seamlessly into BIG&s (the soundtrack mixes original tracks with remakes) If Notorious isn&t a failure it isn&t a triumph either but Tillman has crafted it with love and respect and only a stone could remain
unmoved by the real-life funeral footage at the end --Kathleen C Fennessy
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