Notorious

The inclusion of real-life footage and re-enacted YouTube clips is an interesting idea, but with each awkward stab at a new shooting style, Tillman Jr moves closer towards disgracing his subject with yet another hack job.

Now in blows the myth of the myth: a brashly entertaining biopic.

This team have smoothed over the details of Biggie's rags-to-riches ascent, they haven't succeeded in making it terribly interesting.

The boasts get louder, the bling shinier, but the film itself just gets increasingly monotonous.

This glossy bioflick of late hip hop legend Christopher 'The Notorious BIG' Wallace - aka Biggie Smalls, or 'Chrissy-poo' to his momma - is unlikely to trouble the Academy.

Notorious spins a myth that portends to be a docudrama, which is a little insulting when there’s so much more informative and enlightening material out there on the rapper, his life, and especially the circumstances of his death.

Woolard also performs much of the film's music.

This so-bad-it's-actually-almost-brilliant biopic has an endearingly dodgy way of softening up hard facts.

There's not many surprises here for fans of the big man or those new to his work but the music is great and a major plus point is that Sean 'Puffy' Combs (Derek Luke) is the film's producer.