5 Reasons You’ll Actually Enjoy The Notorious Movie
The Complex massive was lucky enough to get an invite to an early screening of the upcoming Biggie Smalls biopic, Notorious, which hits theaters January 19. From the moment we heard about the movie, we had our reservations'the film had the potential to be hilariously awful. Well, we watched it last night, and…it’s not hilariously awful. In fact, it’s actually pretty good.
But what makes Notorious so watchable? Let us count down the reasons why…
5. DEREK LUKE’S UTTER MASTERY OF THE DIDDY BOP.
Luke’s performance as Diddy is less about impersonation and more of an embodiment of the Puff persona. That basically means, Luke doesn’t really look, talk or act exactly like Puffy, but he still manages to deliver an effective portrayal. However, the one thing that Luke has down pat are Puffy’s exaggerated dance moves. Shit, Luke diddy bops better than Diddy! We couldn’t help but laugh every time Luke-as-Puffy jigs across the stage in the movie. You will, too.
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4. THIS DUDE IS LIL’ CEASE? REALLY???
The portrayals in Notorious range from really good (Angela Bassett as Voletta Wallace) to really bad (Anthony Mackie as 2Pac), but one stands out above them all'Marc John Jeffries as Biggie’s sidekick Lil’ Cease. We can’t imagine Cease will be too pleased to see himself played by lil’ dude from Brown Sugar with the Chiclet teeth. He smokes more blunts than a little bit and got mad guns up in the cabin? C’mon fam: He looks about as hard as a velour bathrobe. Jeffries is not a bad actor by any means, but in a film full of spot-on performances, his Lil’ Cease is comically inaccurate. You’ll still enjoy it, though, because it’s that bad.
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3. BAD BOY GOT MAD HITS. MAD HITS.
Y’all musta forgot! Notorious will definitely compel you to go back and cue up the Big library in the iPod'especially since you’ll be wanting to hear the real deal, not the Gravy-as-Big movie versions. Either way, the film is full of Biggie classics, as well as other Bad Boy hits (”You Used to Love Me,” by Faith'fire!). It will make even the staunchest backpacker a little nostalgic about Bad Boy’s reign at the top. And there’s not even a Ma$e in the movie!
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