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I remember exploring Roxanne Shante and the infamous Roxanne wars, since I was still not born by that time, but around BDP conflict with MC Shan. I became quite the hip hop schollar since then, so I was realy excited to see some new biography of maybe nowadays forgoten rapper.

The movie had some amazing, excelent performances - Marshala Ali is simply one of the better actors of this generation, maybe even top 10 at the moment. Every scene he engages in is pure gold from his side. I was surprised, since the main actress was a mystery to me, but her job was well done - she had great charisma, attitude and most of all - diversity in delivering different types of feelings to the audience. The script however was not so good - maybe even the direction, because the story itself is something a viewer could easily get into, but the delivery was just so mediocre, you stop caring about the characters during the movie (even though they are going through hard times, have interesing plots and meet interesting historical people, it just comes out flat and soon to be forgotten). I realy wish this was done better, because it had so much potential to be a stand-alone biopic, different from everything else, but it ended up being same old repetitive tv movie.

Was realy dissapointed with this one. I liked the first one - it wasn't no mindblowing cinematic achievement, but it was fun to see Arnie and Sly team up and they actually looked like they were enjoying making that movie, which turned out as a solid piece of action.

This one, however, seemed more like a 'leftover' side scripted first one. Acting wasn't that great, but what can you do, even Brando couldn't pull this one off with those scripted lines. I had trouble getting through the movie itself, since it's pace was so non-linear (even though, that can be good sometimes, trust me, this time it wasn't). Sly was barely in this movie, pushed more to the side role in the first half. Even Bautista appearing here and there, with that actor from Desperate housewives didn't help this movie. Script was just so vague. Sly looked like he just had to do this one, for no real reason at all - there's a third part coming soon aswell. I give it a merciful 5, since the soundtrack (retro 80s nuances) and some fight scenes from the begining were alright, 50 and DH dude weren't bad either, but everything else is just bad. Looks more like a TV movie, even though the cinematography and editing were done nicely.