Well, I finally finished watching Broomfield's documentary on the murders of two of the most prominent rap stars of my generation ... Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace (Biggie Smalls/Notorious BIG)

This documentary portends to tell the truth, or at least make a good faith effort to search for some answers behind these murders

I recall reading the stories in the LA Times in September, I believe ... relating to new evidence found in the murders of Tupac and Biggie ... the story pretty much implicated LAPD and gangs ... and well, to me, it added more questions to the stories that must lie behind the shootings of these men within six months of each other now close to seven years ago

I was interested in seeing this movie at the theatres, it actually made a short run here in Hawaii of about two or three weeks over at Art House ... my girlfriend and I never managed to get out to see it

Actually I started thinking again about seeing the documentary because now its a short commercial that you see on late night TV ... so in between being tempted at buying new Tony Robbins and the Snoop episode of Girls Gone Wild, while watching Blind Date ... hmmm Biggie and Tupac dot com ... something like that, you can buy this very DVD that I will review here

In short, our grade:
Biggie & Tupac: C+

The thing that I suppose is most fascinating about this movie is Nick Broomfield's willingness and perhaps stupid bravado to ask the questions that are most pertinent ... to the people involved ... some of which I suppose wouldn't hesitate to perhaps do some serious bodily harm to the eccentric director --- who spends most of the movie walking around with a mic and earphones asking point blank questions nonblushingly

Broomfield does a great job of covering most angles to the story and actually admits to the viewer where dead ends are (or where he couldn't get more information out of, very refreshing) ... so he ambles from this person's home to this person's office ... then off to jail ... then Biggie's mothers house ... basically all over the creation to hunt down the truth of the matter, if such exists at all

I don't wish to spoil the documentary for you the potential viewer ... I do think that sometimes it is easier to get caught up with watching this guy walk around in the hood and do his thing ... sometimes it is easy to lose focus on the topic at hand or shall I say lose focus on what thread Broomfield is hunting down at particular points in the movie

I guess what I want to say is that the movie does tend to meander at times ... and at the documentary's core is a theory that has not gotten adequate play in the mainstream press (well, at least until the LA Times story) ... but interestingly enough, the theory does have some circumstantial factual evidence to suggest its further pursuit ... I don't want to say truth because I don't think that the truth can be as simple ... but it makes you wonder if Broomfield and some of the people in the documentary may be on to something