Set It Off
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Actor: Dr. Dre, Natalie Desselle, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Van Baum, Vincent BaumBrand: Warner Brothers
Primary Contributor: Vivica A. Fox
Primary Contributor: Latifah, Queen
Primary Contributor: Pinkett Smith, Jada
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.78:1
Running Time: 123 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-09-14
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Home Video
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Movie Review: Set it Off
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
Summary of Set It Off
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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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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