Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #120948 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-04-22
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 91 minutes

Customer Reviews

Alyson Hannigan is the only reason to watch this movie
I was really excited about seeing Alyson Hannigan in a movie where she's not playing Willow (from Buffy) or Michelle (from American Pie). Unfortunately, Alyson is the ONLY bright spot in this movie and there was not even enough of her. It was truly painful to watch at times. Everyone else's acting was atrocious. Jennifer Esposito should have her Guild card revoked for her performance. The story was awful, the script worse. If you're an Alyson Hannigan fan, watch it once for her performance. Skip through everything else. You won't miss much.

Good acting but bad movie
The only reason I bought this movie is because Alison Hannigan and Alexis Denisof was in it.(I'm a huge Buffy fan) I knew it wasn't going to be the greatest films ever made but I didn't realize how bad it was going to be. Watching the film I felt almost embarassed for the actors since they were given such crappy material. The story line was thin and it seemed like the movie couldn't decide from whose point of view it wanted to tell the story from. It begins and ends with a narration of the ex-boyfriend of Jennifer Episito's character but for most of the film he isn't an important character. The direction was horrible. It seemed they tried to make shots that were supposed to look cool but it only looked like they were covering up there low budget of a film. There were some scenes that made me feel like I was watching an episode of Dawson Creek or Smallville because there were quite a few scenes with songs playing while showing how sad or troubled a character was. I really wish they had cut that out because it had no point and made the movie drag out even longer than it should have.

The only good thing about the movie was the acting especially from the three female leads. I actually thought Hannigan and Kinski had chemistry together. I would only recomend this movie to die hard Buffy fans or if you're a die hard fan of another actor in this film and then you should only rent it.

Rip It Off rips a boring hole in the fabric of time.....
There's a lot of things wrong with this movie....one being the wasted talents of its gifted cast. Nastassja Kinski (Cat People, One Night Stand), Alyson Hannigan (Boys and Girls, Tv's Buffy The Vampire Slayer), Jennifer Esposito (Tv's Spin City, Master Of Disguise), Brian McCradie (Speed 2: Cruise Control), Steve Harris (Tv's The Practice, Minority Report), Todd Field (Stranger Than Fiction, Twister) and even the always awesome Alexis Denisof (Tv's Angel, Rouge Trader) are all burned out with a soggy script and its way too familiar and formulaic. It's about what adds up to be a bad bank robbery with everyone shooting each other up at the end. I really thought the accents of both McCradie and Denisof trying to do Russians was bad. McCradie is Irish isnt he and Denisof is like British..no, I'm not buying it for one second. Kinski, Hannigan and Esposito are all sexy but like I said....Not much fun...drags on a long time.