That doesn’t always turn out to be true, because Knight apparently still wields plenty of pull even while incarcerated. But it mostly proves a tired rehashing of familiar material that doesn’t justify its 105-minute running time.
As an update to his 2002 effort on the same subject, Biggie and Tupac, this film provides new testimony about Knight and the alleged role of corrupt LAPD cops in Smalls’ murder. Have you ever bought a hardcover nonfiction book only to later encounter a paperback edition with new material that requires shelling out money for the damn book again? That’s roughly the effect of Nick Broomfield’s new documentary Last Man Standing, about former Death Row Records head Suge Knight and theories of his involvement in the killings of Tupac Shakur and Christopher “Biggie” Smalls.
