Review of Widows (2018) by Brettrosey — 24 Nov 2018

This is a good movie if you're willing to call it as it is -- a fun, superficial, outlandishly silly heist thriller. The plot feels so contrived, you almost have to have a suspension of disbelief in order to get through the film and take it entirely seriously.

I also think they could have cast better for the role of Jamal Manning. The whole thing was just poorly thought out, at the end of the day. What's the the random plotline with Rawlings and Manning? And the charismatic reverend gets a huge introduction and then is never seen again.

Then the robbery gets botched, yet somehow there's a car available to them to chase down Jatemme Manning. And they drop her off at the hospital under a fake alias, both dressed in black, with Manning Sr's wife as a witness of how they were dressed and the height and frame of Alice.

...yet neither of those two women get in trouble. Just preposterous, really.