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Set It Off

Warner / Year: 1996

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Synopsis

"If that crackhead Darnell could rob a bank, we can take a bank." That's what four tough and tough-times L.A. women think after a brother from the projects pulls off a bloody bank heist. So they armor up and make bank robbery a woman's game. Four memorable stars – Jada Pinkett (The Matrix Reloaded/Revolutions), Queen Latifah (Hairspray), Vivica A. Fox (Kill Bill Vol. 1) and Kimberly Elise (Close to Home) – slam home the action in director F. Gary Gray's (Friday) blistering, breakthrough thriller. If you're looking for movie dynamite, Set It Off with these girlz in the hood.

3 Reasons To buy this film

Queen Latifah as a dyke!
Kick-ass chicks robbing a bank!
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Review

Four black women - all close friends - are sick and tired of being screwed by the system and decide to turn the tables by robbing some banks.
An enjoyable caper film, Set It Off is never believable, but energetic and pulpy enough to satisfy. The social commentary is obvious, and the circumstances leading up to the ladies' fateful decision is as heavy-handed and generic as a stock gangster film from the '30s. In fact, the film resembles nothing so much as an updated Cagney flick with a race and gender change -- complete with a "crime doesn't pay" message that feels pasted on. Once you can get past the "it's society's fault" exposition, however, Set It Off becomes a genuinely entertaining crime film which manages a few kinetic action scenes along the way. Queen Letifah steals the show as a kick-ass lesbian tough, and Jada Pinkett is quite affecting as a woman of conscience.