An average movie

I wasn’t expecting much from the damned thing but since it was starring Johnny Depp, I was still eager to check it out. Well, I won’t blame Brad Furman who’s a solid director as the whole thing looked decent enough and I think he did what he could with this material. Indeed, to be honest, the main issue I had was that I really struggled to care about this story. Seriously, I mean no offense but how many movies about the Notorious B.I.G. do we really need?!? Only a few months ago, I already saw on Netflix the most recent documentary about the rapper. Anyway, coming back to our main feature, the conclusion was that Suge Knight was (probably) behind this murder. Wow… Wasn’t it something that was common knowledge for almost 20 years? However, the movie didn’t really focus on him but on the fact that he had some links with the LAPD or more that the LAPD had some links with him. The basic idea was that, ever since the beating of Rodney King or probably even before, the LAPD was pretty much rotten to the core and, to complicate things even more, a few years later, the O.J. Simpson displayed that the judicial system in LA was apparently not much better. Well, according to this movie, all these major events might have had a huge impact on how the investigation on the death of the Notorious B.I.G. went down. However, even if they tried to turn his killing in some massive conspiracy, at the end of the day, he was just another young black man who was killed like so many others and, usually, these murders never get solved. The fact that Russell Poole did apparently spend 20 years on this case didn’t change these facts and, to be honest, you might wonder how many cases involving some other young black guy killed in a similar fashion he could have solved in the meantime. Concerning the characters, well, there was something meta going on there since a major washed-up actor was playing a washed-up police detective and his partner was also some washed-up journalist. Eventually, both characters, even if I have to admit that they made some interesting points, were more pathetic than really interesting. Anyway, to conclude, it’s not that it was really a bad movie, it’s just that I really didn’t care about this story and I don’t think it is really worth a look.