The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg
The new movie is less cohesive than “Biggie and Tupac,” and Broomfield is not suited to documentaries with willing subjects.
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United Kingdom · 2021
1h 45m
Director Nick Broomfield
Starring Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., Suge Knight
Genre Crime, Documentary, Music
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This hard-hitting documentary tells the story of Suge Knight, the felon and former CEO of legendary rap music label Death Row Records, and offers a look at the world of gang rivalry and dirty cops that would claim the lives of the world’s two greatest rappers: Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls.
The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg
The new movie is less cohesive than “Biggie and Tupac,” and Broomfield is not suited to documentaries with willing subjects.
RogerEbert.com by Brian Tallerico
Last Man Standing is a startlingly scattershot piece of filmmaking from a director who normally has a sure, personal hand on his projects.
CineVue by Christopher Machell
Broomfield’s triumph is in reimagining Biggie and Tupac’s murders out of their mythology and into a new context in which they are emblematic of a social malaise characterised by toxic masculinity, misogyny, racism, and police corruption.
In Last Man Standing, Broomfield comes close to answering the questions — of guilt and recrimination — that have hung over these murders for too long.
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
Here it seems that Death Row Records was simply a criminal organisation, of which rap music was a byproduct. The talent it somehow nurtured in this way looks even more tragically fragile.