Product Details

• Actors: Sam Jones III, Nelly, Dean Winters, Zoe Saldana, Schooly-D
• Directors: Rich Murray
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
  PLEASE NOTE: Some Region 1 DVDs may contain Regional Coding Enhancement (RCE). Some, but not all, of our international customers have had problems playing these enhanced discs on what are called "region-free" DVD players. For more information on RCE, click here.
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• DVD Release Date: February 25, 2003
• Run Time: 107 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000083C8U
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #69,053 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Snipes (Special Edition)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Dean Winters saves this one., May 15, 2004

By	IhateMTV (The U.S.) - See all my reviews

First of all, I despise Nelly. I think he's one of the worst mainstream rappers out there. The man can't rap and this movie shows that he can't act either. I really don't understand why all the other reviewers praise him as one of the best rappers to act in a film (but then again, none of the other reviewers even bothered to mention Winter's brilliant acting, so what do they know?).

I know that it sounds like I'm being unfair to Nelly just because I don't like his music, I actually tried the best I could to give him a chance. The fact is, the guy didn't show any emotion whatsoever, had the same exact facial expression throughout the entire movie, and used nothing but annoying slang words (which is really probably the writer's fault).

The movie, however, really suprised me. After watching the first ten minutes, I was just about ready to shut it off (it seemed like just another steriotypical hood movie that uses a bunch of slang words that anyone who doesn't watch MTV or BET won't understand), but I'm glad that i stayed around. The plot turned out to be great, with lots of twists and suprising swerves.

In my opinion, the best thing about this film was Dean Winters. I'm a huge fan of the hit HBO show Oz (His character, Ryan O'Reily, is actually my favorite prisoner on the show), and I only rented this because he was in it. Dean didn't disappoint either. He plays the arrogant, greedy, and selfish Bobby Starr perfectly. In fact, he's so good that it's almost impossible not to hate him. I'd also like to mention that there's a terrific deleted/extended scene with Bobby Starr and Johnnie Marandino, where Bobby furtherly tries to persuade Marandino to fund him for his rap company.

Overall, Snipes was a suprisingly good film. I give it a 7/10.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nelly Is great as an actor and rapper., March 10, 2003

By	Kimberly Truss (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Snipes [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I enjoyed the movie. I just saw it for the first time yesterday. The movie was deep. I love Nelly and I am a huge fan of his. The only thing I didn't like was that he curse too much in the movie, other than that I enjoyed him in it. I had been wanting to see the movie but, it sold out in the stores quick. I wanted to rent it but it was always rented out on VHS and that was the only way I could see the movie is on VHS. I guess I have to get me a DVD. I recommend everybody get this movie especially if you like action packed movies. It's also funny.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Movie, March 8, 2003

By	C. Coleman "skyvolt" (Dallas, Texas United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

How was this movie not released until now? It was made when Nelly released his second album and Sam Jones (who pulls a Sean Nelson and steals the show)stars on Smallville. While you can figure out the plot of the movie in the middle of it. An unexpected plot twist happens that isout of the blue. There is another twist in this movie that reflects real life, however it will spoil the plot of the movie, so I'll post a warning here for those that doesn't want the movie's twist given away.

SPOILER....
Dante Suarez has a cameo in this movie and much like Prolifick, whose mucis is never released to the public. Dante's album was never released when RCA dropped him from thier label. So this is the only time you get to see him ever.