What an emotional departure from the first film in Singleton’s loosely connected trilogy. Whereas Boyz is bleak and tense, this film is a lighthearted and tender love story between two young people. Not without its tragedy—there is yet another murder in the climax of the film—the characters transcend this in a happy way. There is a sense of hope the first film never had. The real-life tragic irony is that Tupac would be murdered only a few years after this film. His acting is strong in this, and it’s terrible that we never were able to see his full range. In general, the acting is also consistent with the first film in that it features a cast of both actors who would go on to have enormous careers and musicians not known for acting but turn out to be quite good at it. Singleton and his casting team really knew how to build an ensemble.
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