Notorious

Razor-sharp acting and quick pace help this long film about the seminal rapper who was gunned down at 24

There are many things that can be said about Biggie Smalls, the rapper officially known as the Notorious B.I.G., who was gunned down in a hail of bullets on Wilshire Boulevard in 1997 when he was just 24. But the one that fits best on his massive frame is a slight one: flow. Flow was there in his rhymes, a hypnotic seduction of words weaving and teasing around you like the perpetual haze trailing from his blunts. It was there in the deep rumble of his voice, in the slow, liquid roll of his body as he moved. [...]

di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (5946 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 16 gennaio 2009