Widows

Went into the theatre expecting so much from this movie. Unfortunately it was slow, boring, incoherent movie with convoluted plot twists that weren't properly explained. I kept hoping for a big reveal / climax that would somehow salvage the waste of time that it was but it never happened. In fact the end was even more disappointing and meaningless.

This movie tried to be too much and ended up being nothing spectacular in the end. It didn't feel exciting at all. I've seen plenty of 'bad' movies that I could still sit through in the movies but Widows felt like a chore to watch to the point where I wish I could either just walk out or plug my ears up and sleep. The barely-there background music added to the weariness of the movie that didn't work to their favor. All in all this movie seems like a Oscar-grabbing farce that I'm not sure I, as a general audience, got what the hype is all about. Sometimes a pretentious movie is just what it appears to be and I can't defend this movie to be anything else but that.

Too many unnecessary characters. Way too many side plots which add nothing to the story and do not get solved. A build up of nearly two hours to a completely underwhelming heist. So many unrealistic and unbelievable events. So many completely illogical things. After veronica finds out her husband is still alive, why does she still go trough with the plan instead of getting revenge over him? Why are we shown so many shots that prove veronica has an intimate relationship with her husband, but in the end he screws her over with no proble and they try to kill each other as if they don't mean anything? Who is the guy who gets money to build a library in the end? Why doesn't she build the library herself? Why do they go trough all this trouble to do the heist when they could just kill manning and his guys? Why do the other two women even agree to do the heist? Who is the blonde girl and why does she agree to get involved? Who is the girl in the barbershop? What is her story? What's up with the guy in the bowling alley? This movie raises enough questions to fill a whole season of a television series, but in the end almost none of them are answered. Also it tries way too hard to bring emotional scenes into the story without first laying the foundation for this by having the audiance build a connection to the characters. At the ending some people in the cinema were laughing at how contrived and unbelievable it was. The only interesting scene is the one where they ride from the hood to a nice neighbourhood and you only see the reflections in the car window.