Poetic Justice | Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur

Poetic Justice | Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur | Poetry Malfunction

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Poetic Justice

	Poetic Justice Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur Sony Pictures, 1996 average customer review:based on 89 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Director John Singleton (Boyz N the Hood, Rosewood) made an earnest effort in this, his second, film to say a great deal that is true and relevant about living and loving in a violent, difficult time in American history. Janet Jackson plays a beautician and poet who withdraws into herself after her boyfriend is murdered by gangsters. The late Tupac Shakur plays a postman who tries to get through to her, and the two travel on a course through urban America, connecting with family and community. Singleton has so much on his mind that the film comes out a terrible muddle, but there is a certain integrity peeking through the fog. Shakur makes a startlingly good impression in his film debut, and Jackson strips away her star veneer to play something like a real person--and entirely succeeds. Maya Angelou wrote the poems that pass as those penned by Jackson's character, and she also appears in the film. --Tom Keogh

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Beautiful

This movie is highly under-rated. It is a "love conquers all" story that is beautifully written. The film is a surprise which covers the break-up of a seemingly cute-and-cuddly couple Iesha and Chicago and the coming together of the mis-matched Lucky (2pac) and Justice (Janet Jackson). While many love stories are unrealistic, this story speaks the truth and includes many heart-breaks,deaths, arguments, and hurdles along the path to happiness. Additionally, this film speaks to the true talent of the late Tupac Shakur. Some of the background story lines (such as the focus on the salon owner, Jesse) are a bit lame, distracting, and a waste of time, but if you forget them and focus just on the 4 main characters you'll see how powerful this movie is.

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Poetry Malfunction

POETIC JUSTICE has two great performances by Janet Jackson and Tupac Shakur, who have chemistry enough to burn down the screen, but it suffers from ho-hum direction by auteur John Singleton, and most of all, its ridiculous poetry by former Poet Laureate Maya Angelou just makes you cringe. Even Janet Jackson sounds embarrassed by it, and she's supposed to be the one writing it. In one scene she lounges discontented in a big bed covered with colorful pillows and batik cloths, from above the camera pans down every angle of her curvaceous--yet discontent--body, while the soundtrack has her reciting the words of one of terrible poems, "I'm a woman---phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, That's Me." Janet can't even bring herself to say them and, in her career as a pop star, she's had to deliver some pretty banal lyrics. Not to mention the little inter-songs she puts on her LPs, of her just giggling or making quasiorgasmic sex sounds a la THE VELVET ROPE. But "Phenomenal Woman That's Me" defeats even Janet Jackson. Her famous "wardrobe malfunction" at Superbowl XXXVIII eclipsed for a minute or two her most humiliating moment, but as soon as the fuss died down about that, she still had "Phenomenal Woman" to live down. I have one question for you Maya Angelou. Why, why, why did you do this to young, lovely, tyro actress Janet Jackson? Those poems you wrote for Justice (the name of Janet Jackson's character) to recite belong in infamy.

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I thoght it was just alright it could been better.

I thought that janet jackson part in the movie didn't really give a strong plot really at all. I felt that Tupac acting was better than Janet and the part with Regins King.If your bored at home it's worth watching if nothing else is on tv. Bring back the 90's feel .

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