Poetic Justice (1993)

I love this movie so much

Excellent but underrated film

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Honestly these two were such a cute couple on this but the only problem I had while watching this movie, they added in such annoying characters for this movie. It would've been better if Regina King as Iesha and Joe Torry as Chicago to not join with them for the journey. These characters really did give me the biggest headache that any movie had giving me.Anyways, I really didn't think 2pac was going to be in a movie like this because he mostly does gangsta movies but I suppose he wanted to try something new in getting involved in a romantic drama film. It did suit him but it was just unexpected that he would get involved with something like this!Great movie, I give this 8/10!

this movie was very uninteresting. The movie centers around four people traveling to South Central, LA on a postal mail carrier, come on! Maybe Janet thought Singleton had another "Boyz n DA Hood" in mind with this project "Poetic Justice", but after "Boyz n DA Hood" Singleton moved to less edgier movies to mundane movies like: 2 Fast 2 Furious, Baby Boy, and Shaft. Tupac and Janet give believable performances, but the plot is dull and dry. Seeing it once is definitely more than enough. Janet made the comment during the promotion of this movie, that she had a difficult time finding the right script before reading "Poetic Justice". She explained that most of the scripts she read were "too violent, too corny, too much profanity, too something... " She failed to realize that this movie was just too boring.

Poetic Justice is an urban film but within this catgory it stands out from alot of them in its own way. The movie uses some very interesting elements that I was familiar with and like most urban films they use realistic characters. The camerawork is nothing new but some of it is really good to look at. Janet Jackson is good as the somewhat uptight poet/hairdresser who is mourning the loss of her lover while on a night out with him as is Tupac in a rather different role from the ones he has in Juice, Bullet and Above The Rim. Not only is the role different but as a man it's impossible to not relate to him as you see his struggles in his life including one powerful scene in which he catches his baby's mother smokin' crack and having other men in his daughter's presence - I thought this worked great because I know how I'd feel if I had a kid and my baby's mother is bringing other men around my kid: I wouldn't be too happy. The road trip is where you begin to see all the characters(Pac Shakur, Janet Jackson, Regina King and Joe Torry) develop and John Singleton wastes little time doing that during that time...Poetic Justice is a movie deserving alot more credit than it's getting but too bad there are people out there with stupid stereotypical assumptions so idiotic it can get someone angry8/10

i picked a copy of this up at a yard sale last week thinking this would be interesting. And it was. I never knew much about tupac's acting, or janet jackson's-- and both were well fleshed actors.Tupac's pretty attractive! What a shame he was taken from us so early.Some things bugged me from a director's eye point of view. The trip the four people take to the Bay Area is supposed to be in one day, yet they make like a million stops along the way and there is always the same amount of light out and they stop at places that you would never be able to stop off at from the 101 or the 5.Creative license I guess. And also people were hooking up when they shouldn't have.I also thought some of the poems were OK... but then I found out Maya Angelou wrote them. Hmph, I guess we all have weak moments.Overall, it's good, it didn't move me emotionally, it was just interesting. It was interesting to look at it as a study of how violence and loss can seep into our personalities, at least in the personalities in the movies. Sometimes the character's comebacks when they were fighting each other were more poetic than Maya Angelou's crap poems.So lesson is, if you see this at a yard sale, pick it up.