Rating: 
Summary: Worth it
Review: "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.
Rating: 
Summary: Dean Winters saves this one.
Review: 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.
Rating: 
Summary: Great Movie
Review: 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.
Rating:
Summary: Nelly Is great as an actor and rapper.
Review: 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.
Rating:
Summary: Awesome movie but sad
Review: I loved this movie. Nelly has awesome tallent, the ability to act and the ability to rap. I just got done watching this movie and I must say that it is way off track of what I thought it would be. I pictured this movie like another 8 Mile but it is way different. It's such a good movie yet too many people die in it and it makes it way too sad. They completely confused me with the whole thing but once you've watched it you'll understand it, at least i did. Nelly does an awesome job but what shocked me was him turning out to be the bad guy. Either way, how ever you want to look at it, this is an awesome movie and i would recommend this movie to all people!!!
Rating:
Summary: Awesome movie but sad
Review: I loved this movie. Nelly has awesome tallent, the ability to act and the ability to rap. I just got done watching this movie and I must say that it is way off track of what I thought it would be. I pictured this movie like another 8 Mile but it is way different. It's such a good movie yet too many people die in it and it makes it way too sad. They completely confused me with the whole thing but once you've watched it you'll understand it, at least i did. Nelly does an awesome job but what shocked me was him turning out to be the bad guy. Either way, how ever you want to look at it, this is an awesome movie and i would recommend this movie to all people!!!
Rating:
Summary: AMAZIN
Review: I saw this movie in the theatres and it's really good. It has enough comedy, action and twists to keep the movie interesting. Also the acting is really good especially considering some of the actors are actually rappers (Nelly, Charlie Baltimore, Schooly D). I always want to say that in the symopsis they put the main character as Sam Jones III and the actor as Erik Triggs...Its the other way around the character is Erik Triggs and the actor is Sam Jones III. GET THIS MOVIE TODAY!!
Rating:
Summary: Nelly is awesome
Review: I think that this movie is very, very, good. All the actors are good specially Nelly, he can act. Through out the movie there's a lot of twists and you can't stop watching, it keeps you wanting to know what's gonna happen next. I really recommend this movie to everybody dispite what other people say, SNIPES is awesome.
Rating:
Summary: Entertaining But Not Great, Read Before Voting, 2.5 Stars
Review: I'm going to start off by saying overall Nelly's preformance was borderline terrible in this film (sorry teen suburb groupies) but this film was suprising in how it played it self out, and has been a movie that is sort of under the radar for films, even with a multi selling rapper in Nelly in the film. (rappers need to stop acting) The bases of the film is a conspiracy between Prolifik (Nelly) and a Record Executive. There are many twists and the layout is well thought out to a point, but when you back on it, you think lesser of it. Snipes has some realistic footage of the music business as in Street Teams and what not, but there is some unrealistic ways of life in this movie, and in some scenes where i felt actors did a horrible job of portraying there charachter, Nelly is playing a gangsta rapper, dude is softer then pillows, but suprised me in some parts with his acting, even though overall it was terrible. This movie is another occurence of coroprate America, living off of urban music, and there is a twist on that as the same thing happens in a film as a mob member invests his money into the hip hop scene and also naming a place "Kings Bridge" in the film taking of on "Queens Bridge" project houses, i notice the little things. I'm not going to get into the story to much as you have to see how it unfolds, it's clever in a way, but at the same time terrible in a way. This movie is weird and depending on how you take it, you may or may not enjoy it, i would compare this film to "Prison Song" because they both display terrible footage of life, that gets pushed to the next limit to where it's not so realistic, watch it sounds appealing to you, nothing ground breaking though.
Director: Rich Murray
Writer(s): Rich Murray and Rob Wiser
Starring: Nelly, Sam Jones III, Zoe Saldana, Charlie Baltimore (Murder INC rapper)
Layout: 6 of 10, well put together in parts, not so well in others
Story: 7 of 10, good story, realistic to a point
Acting: 5.5 of 10, some was good but overall weak acting
Rating:
Summary: Good the first time.
Review: Just good, not great. But well worth watching. Nelly, as Prolifik, does the best he possibly could with what he given. Good for his first try. But if you are thinking this is a Nelly movie you'll be very disappointed, for this film centers around a kid named Erik who puts up snipes (promo posters) for Wax records. Caught up in middle of a deadly game of greed between low life hoods and a low life record label owner, Erik (or Snipes as dubbed by Prolifik) sets out to find the cause of his troubles. The movie starts off real good, but once you get through the main plot twist it loses momentum. Worth seeing once. After that you'll just watch it only half the enthusiasm of the first time.
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