Set It Off (Snap Case) |  | Actors: Van Baum, Vincent Baum, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Natalie Desselle, Dr. Dre
Studio: New Line Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  67 reviews
Sales Rank: 4253
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 123 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: N4787
ISBN: 6305505799
UPC: 794043478727
EAN: 9786305505792
ASIN: 6305505799
Theatrical Release Date: November 6, 1996
Release Date: September 14, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | 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.Running Time: 123 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R Age: 794043478727 UPC: 794043478727 Manufacturer No: |
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Product Description
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.Running Time: 123 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 794043478727
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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
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 good January 27, 2010
C. Malone
The only problem was that it didn't come with the original case. The disc was in perfect condition.
 they be racist January 26, 2010
roland (Idaho)
Why do they got to be black women who be smoking drugs and robbing banks? Like all black women got to be criminals just because we black? We got to be talking bad english and shown to not be knowing how to speak proper english like we be stupid? Why we got to be portrayed like we be all ghetto? This be a horrible movie, and the director, they be stupid. Not all black women be talking like they be stupid hoes.
 Still a powerful film to this day. January 13, 2010
K. Wong
Very pleased this is finally available on blu-ray. Not much difference in the director's cut compared to the DVD release. And its very unfortunate the blu-ray lacks any extra features with the exception of a 20-minute 'making of' special that was pieced together poorly. I would've loved to see the extra footage, commentaries, etc. from Latifah herself and more actors in the film. This film was heavily promoted in 1996 with material and footage which New Line should've included but didn't. Another criticism is the groundbreaking soundtrack and music videos from the film which was totally disregarded on the bluray. It would've been a treat to feature music videos in HD such as Bone Thugs-n-Harmony's "Days of Our Livez" and En Vogue's biggest hit with Dawn Robinson "Don't Let Go (Love)". Still, it's my favorite black cinema and fantastic to watch in HD nonetheless.
Set It Off January 6, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
Stony, Cleo, Tisean and Frankie have been through a lot together while growing up in the projects of Los Angeles. They've been scammed by sleazy employers, slammed by heartless boyfriends, and slapped around by neighborhood cops. No matter how tough the going got--when one found herself in trouble, she had three life-long friends backing her up. Now comes the ultimate test. A tragic chain of events has brought these inseparable companions closer than ever. I was completely blown away by this movie. It was so breath-taking in its pace, the performances and the action, but it was also extremely moving.
Visceral, hard-hitting action film. December 29, 2009
S. Spears (Florence, MA)
Set It Off is an explosive drama about four young black women, who are best friends. Living in the Los Angeles ghetto, each of them struggles with economic and emotional hardships. All of them suffer deeply, due to injustices perpetrated against them by their employers, trigger-happy cops, and the welfare bureaucracy. Fed-up with how life has knocked them around, and desperate to escape the ghetto, the four friends decide to resort to robbing banks together.
This film is very fast-paced, with gripping suspense throughout the course of the movie. There's scarcely a dull moment. This movie is overflowing with tire-screeching car chases, blazing gunfire, and volatile interactions between the characters. The breath-taking action sequences really draw you in to the precarious world, of the criminal quartet.
It's good that Hollywood finally decided to make a film, that has African-American female characters who make such a deep impact. They're just as rough, vulgar, and determined to change their lives for the better, as any of the male characters are. They're deadly serious about being willing to risk their lives, to take up criminal activities. The women in the film, don't depend on men to determine their course of action. They know that it's up to them alone, to work together to accomplish their bank heists.
The four actresses who played the main characters, all give strong performances. Especially Queen Latifah as the hardened butch lesbian, Cleo Simms. She really makes the viewer believe that Cleo can fearlessly handle just about anything, that she's up against. Jada Pinkett also gives a compelling performance as Stoney. Pinkett shows an amazing emotional range, and is able to convey the contradictory moods of Stoney with ease. Vivica Fox as Frankie, is vivid in her role, but not quite as charismatic as either Queen Latifah, or Jada Pinkett. Kimberley Elise as the desperate single mother, Tisean, gives a heartrending performance.
This film crackles with a heady intensity, that's rare in films with women as the main characters. These sistahs prove that they are forces to be reckoned with, as they fight for their dreams in a male dominated world. This cutting-edge action film, delivers jolt-after-jolt of exciting entertainment.
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