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In the late 70's into the early 80's DJs began recording mixtapes out of their homes, referring to them as House Tapes. As more tapes became available, they began to be collected and traded by fans. Hip hop mixtapes first appeared in the mid-1970s in New York City, featuring artists such as Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaataa. Not 'bad' generally but just really lacking over what I would have expected from a biopic.In hip hop's earliest days, the music only existed in live form, and the music was spread via tapes of parties and shows. The cast turn in solid but not that good performances accordingly but nobody can raise it beyond what it is. The people and events are there but they are only ever names and things that happen – never real people or events that come from the story. The end result is a film that looks good and covers a lot of ground but doesn't work as a dramatic film. Smith, Ringgold, Mackie and others just do the basics as the film gives them no other options. Naughton's Lil Kim sticks in the mind for reasons other than her performance (although again as an impression it is good enough for here). Luke and Bassett are both very talented actors but neither gets to showcase that here – indeed Luke is only memorable for how well he nails Puffy's dancing style. Woolard does a solid impersonation of Biggie and deal well with the material but he has nowhere to go with his character other than the specifics of the scene – there is not a man inside his performance so much as an image of a man. It might be them or it might be the material but either way, the cast are not that great. Such things damage the film further as both a record and as a dramatic film – I didn't want 'warts & all' but an edge of realism and criticism (where warranted) would have been good.

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For example we get to see the crack user years later, fine and playing with her child (also fine) and of course much is put right by conversations, commitments and phone calls on the night that he gets killed. However all of these things tend to be deliberately cancelled out later on in some daft and unnecessary scenes. It cannot completely hide it though and we do get lots of infidelity and things like him happily selling crack to a pregnant woman. Contrary to his musical personae, the film does not play up the negative side of Biggie's life too much. This is best seen in the 'second-tier' characters such as Puffy and the many women in Biggie's life but it comes over differently with Biggie himself. Nobody ever feels real – partly because of the dialogue but also because the material doesn't give anybody room to develop. Before anyone messages me with insults, I can see that there are physically people on the screen there, doing and saying things as these people, but in terms of character development and depth there is none. Not that the film is overly concerned with the characters because the events-driven script doesn't really have any. As a sort of summary of Biggie's career this is fine I suppose but when it comes to caring about the characters then it does hurt it quite bad. It is like this with events as well, and the dialogue is surprisingly expositional in its nature with far too many characters seemed to be talking just for the sake of filling in blanks or moving to the next scene. This is all well and good but it breaks up the film as a dramatic piece – for example with Lil' Kim, she is not allowed to just be part of the story, no, when she is introduced we even get a shot of her name badge so we can all be sure from the start as to who she is. As a result it doesn't flow so much as it does introduce people and things in a way that the audience will recognise. The problem with the film is that it is far to driven by ticking boxes of people and events. The truth of the matter that the film is 'ok' but not anything more than that – and I say that as a hip-hop listener who likes more east coast than west coast. I was curious to see what the film was like on its own merits so I made an effort to see it recently. So the unquestioning 10* reviews rave about the man and his music, while the 1* reviews talk more about the aspects of the music and culture he represents than they do about the film.

The opinion on IMDb on this film seems to be pretty split and the reason appears to be because many are not writing their opinions of the film so much as they are reviewing Biggie and/or hip-hop itself.