Gang Related (1997)

Tupac Shakur and Jim Belushi are pair of corrupt detectives who are left scrambling when a person they murdered turns out to be an undercover DEA agent. The film has a lot of good ideas going for it, but the result is terribly uneven. Released a year after Tupac’s own murder, I was unsure of him playing the more level-headed character to Belushi’s unhinged mastermind, but it speaks to the talent that was lost that he pulled it off quite well. Belushi on the other hand does not know how to bring the steely, ruthlessness necessary for his character whose arc goes on for too long and wraps up in a terribly convenient way.