The title implies it is the polar opposite of Pac’s most popular album (Everyone looking at Pac vs. 4 Your Eyez Only is a clear allusion to 2Pac’s All Eyez on Me. Here they are: (feel free to shit on them or add to them). I know 4 Your Eyez Only hasn’t been out for 48 hours, but I have a lot of thoughts swirling around and I wanted to compile them somewhere. It’s time for finals so that naturally means I’m looking for any way I can distract myself from doing my actual work.
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These cliched scenes, in combination with the elaborate but cheesy-looking special effects, register mostly as second-rate copies of Western cinematic conventions.Īlso problematic, at least for offshore audiences, is that those unfamiliar with the history of Islam - and the story behind the man considered by Muslims to be the last prophet sent to humankind by God - may be more than a little lost. Restricted by both its narrative scope (it follows Muhammad from the year of his birth to the age of 12) and religious prohibitions against showing the prophet’s face, Majidi tries to enliven matters whenever possible with action scenes (legendary battles, chases through the marketplace, pilgrims circling the Kaaba, hand-to-hand combat, camel caravans, horses galloping across the desert), but action is not this helmer’s forte.
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