Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Corrupt cops Frank Divinci (James Belushi) and Rodriguez (Tupac Shakur) kill a drug dealer to rob him with stripper Cynthia Webb (Lela Rochon). Rodriguez owes a large gambling debt to a loan shark. Divinci and Rodriguez are assigned to investigate the murder of the drug dealer who turns out to be an undercover DEA agent. They frame a homeless man (Dennis Quaid) for the crime. The cover-up becomes more and more complicated.This is an interesting little crime drama. The Dunner trial should be extended because that provides some of the tension. He gets off and is never heard from again. The various story threads should combine and cross until the whole thing blows up at the climax. Belushi does bombastic but he needs more desperation. Tupac is pretty good and shows that he could have been an interesting actor if he lived.

This is a good thriller with a noir feel in it. Tupac gave a great performance as well as Belushi (we can see Belushi doing a different performance than in his other movies). They made a great duo. Dennis Quaid and James Earl Jones were excellent.Belushi and Tupac are crooked cops who sell drugs and then kill the guy they sold it to, and mark the murder gang related. The drugs and weapons they use are all evidences from previous cases. The first ten times everything goes smoothly but eleventh time it does not.I gave it 7/10. Good dialogue and main characters, good story and great twists!Worth watching!

Much better movie than I expected. Jim Belushi and Tupac Shakur have a good chemistry as 2 crooked, conflicted cops. Tupac Shakur actually played a very good character as the increasingly troubled cop. He was willing to bend some rules, and put some money in his pocket, but things have now gone entirely too far for him. Jim Belushi plays a morally dumb cop who continues to make the situation worse, and continues to believe he can probably manipulate his way out of anything.Dennis Quaid, James Earl Jones and Lela Rochon were all excellent.I didn't expect too much from this, but I was drawn into a well-done, well-acted movie.

If it wasn't for the fact that I'm a huge fan of Rap-music, and that I consider Tupac Shakur as the greatest rapper of all time, chances are that I would have never taken my time to watch "Gang Related". In fact, I don't consider any of the films Tupac starred in as directly bad. "Poetic Justice" (1993), "Juice" (1991) and "Gridlock'd" (1996) are all films that I would recommend and consider as highly watchable. Now "Gang Related" was the only film he got the chance to star in, where he didn't play a criminal or a street-thug from the ghetto. In this film he actually plays a police officer... ...a corrupt one that is, though. Divinci (played by James Belushi) and Rodriguez (Tupac Shakur) are two cops who are dealing drugs, bribing and even murdering peoples when they're at work. Their formula is to sell drugs to naive buyers, then kill them and keep the money. This seems to work just fine until one of their victims turns out to be a undercover-police officer.Crime-movies like this isn't exactly my favorites, but I liked this one. Jim Kouf has written an interesting story with enough thrilling and surprises, and except for that part, the actors has to carry the film on their own. I haven't seen many films starring James Belushi, but this is the best performance I've seen by him. He fits the role as Divinci perfect, and really takes the film to a higher level. The chemistry between Belushi and Tupac is also working well. This was Tupac Shakur's last role before he passed, but it is not his best. It's a good performance, though he's being overshadowed by Belushi. Along with Ice Cube, Tupac was a rapper that really COULD act, unlike many of today's rappers who's mostly making a fool out of themselves, trying to act in movies. Lela Rochon (a beautiful woman who plays Divinci's friend Cynthia) and Dennis Quaid (who plays the bum Joe) are also giving some approved performances.Before watching "Gang Related" I had seen a few teasers, and it looked like an average crime-film to me. It may not be an extraordinary crime-film, but I sure found myself glued to the TV. As the first hour went by, it became very intense and thrilling. I'm not sure of what to think about the ending of the film, though. It was surprising and had a twist of ironic humor, but I kind of disliked it a little bit, for some reason. To me, it was ONE major flaw in this film: ***Spoilers Following*** During long parts of the film, Divinci and Rodriguez are discussing the murder case, while nobody knows that THEY are the murderers. They keep roaring, screaming and revealing things to each others in public places like at the police station.I think it's very illogical that NOBODY hears or notices them and reacts. ***End Of Spoilers***. I also have to say that I disliked the score, and I'm talking about that awful "main" theme, which is being played often through out the film. It doesn't fit the film and it's mood at all."Gang Related" is a good crime-film, with a well-written story and two good actors in the leading roles. It is not as bad as you may think at first, and it's well worth watching at least one time...not exactly the kind of film that's to be watched numerous times, anyway. Tupac Shakur's last film.May he Rest In Peace.8.0 out of 10