WHAT’S IT ABOUT
A police shootout leaves four thieves dead during an explosive armed robbery attempt in Chicago. Their widows — Veronica, Linda, Alice, and Belle — have nothing in common except a debt left behind by their spouses’ criminal activities. Hoping to forge a future on their own terms, Veronica joins forces with the other three women to pull off a heist that her husband was planning.
MoviesInMo Review
The trailer is very deceptive. Widows can be a good movie or a bad film depending on what you were expecting to see. I expected to see an action movie about a group of women robbing banks to pay their deceased husbands debts. That’s only half true. Widows is all drama with some action sequences in it to help move the story and remind us of the reason these women are doing what they’re doing. There’s a lot of dialog in this film, and it is well written and acted but seems out of place considering the underlying plot. “Some experienced thieves were killed in a robbery gone wrong. A crime boss needs his money and decides to kill the women of the thieves that owes him unless they pay the debt.” That’s the story that gets dramatically drawn out throughout this film. Widows is a very emotional movie that centers around Veronica (Viola Davis), Alice (Elizabeth Debicki), and Linda (Michelle Rodriguez) and the loss of their husbands. This loss creates a newfound sense of self-discovery within our female cast. From there, as an audience member, you realize this movie is a lot more than some empty action flick. It’s a deep drama that relies on the viewer to empathize with each character. Ultimately, the overall payoff was (somewhat) worth the satisfying and surprising ending.
OUR RATING – AN UNEXPECTED 7
MEDIA
- Genre – Drama
- Street date
- Digital – January 22nd 2019
- DVD/Blu-Ray – February 5th 2019
- Video – 1080p
- Screen size – 2.39:1
- Sound – English Dolby Atmos, English Descriptive Audio 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 and French Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitles – English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras
- Widows Unmasked: A Chicago Story
- Gallery