in a BBC Radio interview dated March 7, 2005, Broomfield stated (quoting Snoop Dogg) "The big guy next to him in the car... Suge Knight."

Poole also alleged that he was forced out of the department when he brought information to his superiors incriminating fellow officers who had worked side jobs as bodyguards for Knight and his record label.

Broomfield's documentary is described by the New York Times[4] as a "largely speculative" and "circumstantial"[4] account relying on flimsy evidence, failing to "present counter-evidence" or "question sources."

They include bounty hunter and ex-con Kevin Hackie, an ex-LAPD officer [Russell Poole on whose theory Broomfield's film is built] who talks about mysterious documents that never turn up; Mark Hyland, known for some reason as the Bookkeeper, who is in prison awaiting trial on 37 counts of impersonating a lawyer when he tells Broomfield that he was present when Knight and crooked cops arranged a hit on Biggie; and Biggie's mother, friends and bodyguard, who obviously have no reason to present Wallace as anything less than a hip-hop martyr.

[2] Moreover, the motive suggested for the murder of Biggie (as in the Russell Poole theory on which it relied)—to decrease suspicion for the Shakur shooting six months earlier—was, as The New York Times phrased it, "unsupported in the film.

[5] John Cook of Brill's Content noted that the LA Times article "demolished" [6] the Poole-Sullvan theory of Biggie's murder represented in the film.