6.9
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Set It Off (1996)
Set It Off (1996)
Overview
Four inner-city Black women, determined to end their constant struggle, decide to live by one rule — get what you want or die trying. So the four women take back their lives and take out some banks in the process.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Neutral
Viewer Rating
6.9
Overview
Four inner-city Black women, determined to end their constant struggle, decide to live by one rule — get what you want or die trying. So the four women take back their lives and take out some banks in the process.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The film is rated Left-Leaning because its central narrative strongly emphasizes how systemic economic hardship, lack of opportunity, and social injustice drive its protagonists to desperate criminal acts, eliciting empathy for their struggle against an oppressive environment.
The film features a main cast of Black women, with a narrative that explores their experiences and challenges. Its focus is on the characters' lives rather than explicit recasting of traditional roles or a direct critique of traditional identities.
Secondary
The film features Cleo, a main character who is openly lesbian, portraying her with dignity and complexity. Her sexuality is an incidental aspect of her character, neither celebrated nor condemned, and her relationship is depicted without explicit focus or judgment. The narrative's primary conflicts and outcomes are unrelated to her queer identity, resulting in a neutral overall portrayal.
The film "Set It Off" does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative centers on four cisgender women navigating socio-economic challenges and resorting to bank robbery, with no elements related to transsexual identity or experiences present in the storyline.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Set It Off is an original crime drama film from 1996, not an adaptation of existing source material or a reboot. All characters were created for this specific film, thus there are no instances of characters being established as one gender in prior canon or history and then portrayed as a different gender.
Set It Off (1996) is an original film featuring original characters. There are no pre-existing canonical or historical racial identities for its characters to be compared against, thus precluding any race swaps.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.9
7.2
Critic Ratings
7.1
6.2
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