It has been more then 10 years since Christopher Wallace was murdered in Los Angeles on a trip he should have never made in a vehicle he never should have been riding in. I saw the movie Notorious last night, and I really enjoyed it. The casting was very well done, with the actress (beautiful!!) who played Faith (Antonique Smith) and the actor who played Biggie (Jamal "Gravy" Woolard) stealing the show as far as I am concerned. The director (George Tillman, Jr.) made sure that everything was accurate to the time of the mid to late 90's (except the one mistake he made when they are buying cars, don't think that model of Benz was available yet.) I really was interested to see if it was going to be a "ghetto" movie or whether I should take it serious, and I must see, Fox was very serious about this movie. The cinematography and quality of film is very good, and from what I have read it had the biggest budget of any independent Fox Searchlight picture yet. The movie goes from him being a little boy all the way to his untimely death in Los Angeles. You already probably know his biography so I will just say that it is a movie definitely worth your time. They used his music to help tell the story of his life, and also shared a few stories and things you may not have known. While it would have been better for them to include the back story of Charli Baltimore coming in and making it a love quadrangle between BIG, Faith, Kim and Charli, there was already enough drama so I guess that was ok. I also would have enjoyed them showing more of the making of both his albums in the studio, a visit to Hot 97, just more hip hop stuff from the 90's.After watching the movie the thoughts that has run through my head repeatedly are as follows:
1) Why on earth didn't Puff have more security at the venue?
2) And if not more security, why did they leave through the front of the venue walking through a crowd?!
3) Why wasn't the vehicle armored?
4) WHY WERE THEY IN LOS ANGELES TO BEGIN WITH?!
The West Coast was still grieving the loss of their biggest artist (even though Pac was from Baltimore). It looks even more stupid in retrospect that Bad Boy would take a trip out there to promote the record, especially with them still receiving a ton of death threats. So yes, this gets 4.0/5 ticket purchase approvals from me (TPA from here on out) due to Fox and the cast treating the story seriously, putting resources into it, and having as much fact as they could fit comfortably into 2 hours. Wish they had portrayed him and Jay-z meeting and being friends,though. I also was happy they let the real Ms. Wallace speak, as well.
2 comments:
oooh can I do a review for He's Just Not That Into You? lol. Great review. I want to see it.
@Lexi
Mentioning that trash could get you deleted...lol. That 'movie' and 'book' should never have been created. Women can't be that dumb to need a book to understand men.
Nice review. Especially the questioning of the west coast trip in the first place.
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