This was a great movie. I saw it in Brooklyn and, needless, to say, the crowd was especially enthusiastic and responsive. My only complaint is that while I felt like it was revealing into Biggie Small's psyche, it didn't dig too deeply into the characters whose stories intersected his. What were Faith Evans and Lil Kim really thinking about Biggie's behavior? And mysteries were brought up, but never revealed. Did Faith Evans really cheat? Who shot Biggie? Who shot Tupac? It's understandable, given that some of the answers to these questions might effect prominent people still alive today, but if you're going to the movie looking for answers, you're outta luck. Nonetheless, it's a great movie.
Definitely one of the top blockbusters stemming from a comic book, or any other summer blockbuster for that matter. What sets it apart from many movies of the same genre is that it had a definite plot, issues relevant to present-day people, dialogue that obviously was written and not simply ad-libbed, and the concept of the original still shown strongly through. Whereas many movies in this genre are watered down in production meetings, anything unothordox/quirky about this movie was allowed to stay. Great.