1/17/2024 0 Comments Picture of gridlock movie![]() ![]() Most audiences thought his films were documentaries. Never mind that Shakur began acting at age 13 (onstage in A Raisin in the Sun), that he received training in his craft at the Baltimore School for the Arts and that he could be astonishingly inventive at characterization. Shakur was praised for social realism, which is racist cant for saying that he never made a movie that didn’t have a gun in it, that didn’t ballyhoo drugs or bash women as bitches, that didn’t feature Shakur playing himself. The rap on Pac was that he made a great screen threat. Ironically, the only critical juice that Shakur ever collected on film, and that includes Poetic Justice (1993) and Above the Rim (1994), was gang related. ![]() The film is a comedy, the first in a six-film career of gritty urban dramas that began in 1992 with his bad-teen role in Juice and will end in the fall of 1997 with his bad-cop role in Gang Related, which wrapped just a week before Shakur was gunned down in a Las Vegas drive-by, on Sept. 18 at the esteemed Sundance Film Festival and features Shakur’s best and most appealing performance. Exploitation? You bet.Ĭut some slack to Gridlock’d, which premiered on Jan. Once deemed un-releasable, Bullet goes directly to video on Jan. Then there’s Bullet, a 1994 actioner with Shakur and Mr. ![]() His posthumous rap album, The Don Killuminati, is still charting books and films about his thug life and murder, at 25, are in the works and his penultimate movie, Gridlock’d, is out for the new year. ![]()
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