| Actors:
| Sam Jones III, Nelly, Dean Winters, Zoe Saldana, Schooly-D | | Director:
| Rich Murray | | Format:
| Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen | | Language:
| English | | Subtitle:
| English, French, Spanish | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Sony Pictures Home Entertainment | | Run Time:
| 107 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| February 25, 2003 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 17 reviews |
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Great MovieMar 08, 2003
By C. Coleman
"skyvolt"
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.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Worth itMar 01, 2003
By Paul Manion
"Snipes" is entertaining. It's not a cinematic masterpiece, nor does it aspire to be. It's leaps and bounds better than your average hip-hop movie where the latest rapper du jour gets a starring vehicle..."Exit Wounds" with DMX was a painful movie to watch. "Snipes" is enjoyable. Sure, there are some scenes that stretch the limits of plausibility, but all in all, it's a fun movie.
In the interest of full disclosure, I must say that I worked on this movie as a Production Assistant, but I'm not biased. I only worked on it for 2 days. But in one scene, they put me in the movie. I get carjacked near the end. Of course, I had to sit through the entire movie to see my 5 seconds of screen time, but "Snipes" made it an enjoyable wait. Check it out if you like fun urban thrillers.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Go NellyOct 12, 2002
By Brittney
Nelly's debut movie was definitely a hit to me, not just because I'm his #1 fan, it just was.I recommend this movie it's good enough to see over again so I'm gon' hit the theaters back up. Although there were a very few things that weren't all that good but he's still a five!
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Dean Winters saves this one.May 15, 2004
By IhateMTV
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.
 never received this item ... that i paid for amazon...May 11, 2011
By Anthony M. Grundy
I purchased this item and NEVER RECEIVED it !!! sent the seller WHERE'S MY STUFF to inform them that i never received the item.... but got no reply and no DVD ...GOOD LUCK
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