Set It Off

It's being along time since I've seen a film that really took my breath away, but this shook me to my bones. What seems to start off as a stereotypical film about racial injustice, ends as a story of the highest calibre. The 4 leading ladies act to perfection, making the tragedy and heartbreak so real. If you don't cry at the end of this, I suggest you get out in the sunshine and thaw!

A great movie for those peoples that like to empathize with a movie.

If you let yourself have the same feelings as the characters in the

movie have you might have strong emotions like: despair, feeling

trapped and injustice.

You might even find, that choices you can't comprehend are suddenly

very logical.

For peoples that don't let their feelings participate in watching the

movie. I imagine this movie is less appealing.

This movie did not deserve the 2am timeslot it was given here (Downunder).

It is a down-on-the-street, impactful, action/drama.

Fantastic acting (DAMN that Will Smith is a lucky guy :-), realistic, entertaining, and sometimes sad.

What more could a movie goer/watcher ask for?

Warning though - a lot of swearing - which usually doesnt matter much here in Australia, but for some reason, they relegated this really good movie to a late (VERY late) timeslot.

From start to finish, "Set It Off" is a fast-paced urban drama that never lets up for a minute. The four leads (Jada Pinkett-Smith, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox, Kimberly Elise) turn in realistic and sincere performances. Queen Latifah's strong performance as a tough gun-packing lesbian who takes s*** from no one steals the show. She plays Cleo, who sees her friends suffer at the hands of injustice. Her best friend, Stony (Jada Pinkett-Smith), loses her brother to the LAPD. Frankie (Vivica A. Fox) is unfairly discharged from the bank that got robbed in the first scene. T.T. (Kimberly Elise) is a young struggling single mother who sees her son get taken away by Child Protective Services after a small "accident." Their solution: rob a few banks and get out of town. F. Gary Gray ("Friday," "The Negotiator") knows what buttons to push to make "Set It Off" a cut above most ghetto films and gives us characters to root for. My evaluation: *** out of ****.

Being a Queen Latifah fan and also Jada Pinkett Smith , this movie was good, not all that great because of the typical sterotype saga of blacks robbing banks. I think one of the best scenes was when they were at work around the big round table portraying and imitating the Godfather, and of course when Queen Latifah met her dome in the hail of bullets after she rode past the bridge.