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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: New Line Home Video
Salesrank: 3915
Released: September 14, 1999 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Four women take the law into their own hands and try to get some pay-back by robbing the city's biggest banks in this riveting action drama starring Jada Pinkett, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox, Kimberly Elise and Blair Underwood. Directed by Gary Gray.
DVD Features:
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Description of Set It Off (Snap Case):
Even when it misses a dramatic opportunity in favor of generic action, Set It Off benefits from a sharp understanding of its well-drawn central characters. They're a quartet of young African American women in Los Angeles (Jada Pinkett, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox, Kimberly Elise), all struggling against a system that seems designed to prevent them from realizing their dreams. The movie establishes their plight with credible attention to emotional detail, making their decision to rob banks believable enough to give the ensuing plot its inevitably tragic momentum. Cowritten by the screenwriter of What's Love Got to Do With It?, the film conveys genuine compassion for its characters, and the ensemble cast is uniformly strong--especially Queen Latifah as a brash lesbian whose fate is as certain as her forceful attitude.
Set It Off expresses a real sense that these women have been close friends for years, and that gives the film additional impact, even when their transition to crime and violence feels somewhat forced and superficial. A romantic subplot involving Pinkett and a social-climbing banker (Blair Underwood) is too contrived to be convincing, and director F. Gary Gray (Friday) tries too hard to combine hard-hitting action with social relevance (a weakness shared by Gray's following film, The Negotiator). Still, Set It Off effectively avoids passing judgment; its emotional complexity transcends simple notions of right and wrong, injecting vitality--and a kind of renegade integrity--into the traditions of a familiar plot. --Jeff Shannon
Set It Off (Snap Case) Reviews:
Instant Classic 
2009-10-30 - Wow! this is such a great movie. If you hate all those up tight films like there will be blood etc. watch this, this movie has a good story and action. You will laugh, cheer and cry! I love love love this movie!!!
Set it Off
2009-02-12 - This is a great movie. It is sad,funny, and action packed. It's a story of a group of "sisters for life" who are fed up with being screwed by the system and decide to take things in their own hands. They go on a rampade robbing banks hoping for a better tomorrow. I recommend this movie to everyone. I dare you not to love it.
very good
2008-12-10 - well i think the movie was well done they picked the perfect people to play the right parts i can watch that movie over and over again.
"Set it off like Vivica!"...(Notorious Big) 
2008-10-30 - I ordered this one through Amazon, it's a classic and has Jada Pinkett in it...(pause for the cause)...she is fine! Ok, back to the review...I ordered it and it came within a few days which was cool cause, I really wanted to check it out. I won't go into the movie, you can read up on that if you choose but as far as my experience goes, I enjoyed the movie when it first came out and I still like to watch it from time to time. Ordering was easy and I suggest it for anyone's movie collection. YMMV. NEOSOUL06.
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2008-08-11 - Iam pleased with my purchases from amazon. they always get me my orders in a hurry and I will stay a loyal customer for years.
