Set It Off

Set It Off is a captivating movie about four females who, like a song theyplayed in the movie, are down on their luck and up against the wind.

Frankie (Vivica Fox) falls victim to guilt-by-association and loses herjob, which stimulates her anger and influences her desire for revenge. Cleo(Academy Award Nominee Queen Latifah) is simply a victim of her deep urbanenvironment. Tashan (Kimberly Elise) is in a deep ecomonic bind and indesperate need of financial assistance to maintain custody of her child.Stoney (Jada Pinkett-Smith) is a young woman with too much agony in herlife and a deprived idea of true happiness.

In this movie, set in Los Angeles, these women go against society'sideology of the female role and decide to take matters of their economicsuffering into their own hands.

This movie is very adventurous and action-entailed and, if that is notenough for you, there is also one of the sexiest and romantic love scenesin cinematic history. F. Gary Gray's direction resulted in a raw film withrealistic settings and vivid color schemes. Jada Pinkett's performance wasGrade A and Queen Latifah gave a stellar performance that shows herversatility and accomplished acting ability. Whether you're down on yourluck, looking to find relativity in an artform, or interested in viewing adeliciously emotional movie, Set It Off is 123 minutes of time well spent.