NOTORIOUS Blu-ray Review — Dellamorte reviews the story of Christopher ‘Biggie Smalls’ Wallace

Written by Andre Dellamorte

The Tupac Shakur Bios were –all things – quick out the gate. So was the flood of posthumous material. For a while there his legacy was inescapable. And he’s still a strong figure in the community.

But if you go out to a club, and you want it to explode, you play “Juicy.” Or “Party and Bullshit.” Or “Hypnotize.” Though Tupac has a couple of songs, crowds still go crazy for Christopher “Biggie Smalls” Wallace, or as his albums refer to him, The Notorious B.I.G. And now there’s a bio-pic.

It’s not much of a movie, and director George Tillman Jr. follows the playbook of the bio-pic formula (there’s even helicopter shots of cities), but Jamal Woolard does capture the swagger and grace of Wallace. Raised by his mother Volletta (Angela Bassett, too good for this material, but in fine form here), …

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NOTORIOUS Blu-ray Review — Dellamorte reviews the story of Christopher ‘Biggie Smalls’ Wallace