This movie dragged so much, with incredibly underdeveloped characters, unnecessary scenes, badly written dialogue, and so many bizarre, unbelievable moments. A couple people walked out halfway. I think. I lost all concept of time, and not in a good way. The only reason I'm even giving this movie a 4 is because the acting was really good. That was honestly the only redeemable aspect. The really long review on here was spot on. I honestly got more out of reading that than watching this terrible movie.

I was so excited to see this film..especially after seeing The director's previous works ( Twelve Years a Slave, Hunger) but my gosh I don't see why the writers felt the need to fit in sooo many social lessons or stereotypes in one film! This is why movie sales have gone way down in recent years! We want to see great movies with amazing storyline. This is NOT that! More hate for the white man..let's squeeze in the #metoo movement..oh let's not forget to add the racist cop shooting an African American kid..oops..we also need spousal abuse and a cheating spouse. ..oh can we fit in some prostitution? Men suck..women are awesome! Come on! It builds you up for this amazing heist that is supposed to happen..but heist fell flat!! Very disappointing. All the SJW's will be on here praising it because that's obviously the goal here..not a good movie! Way to many story lines, the amazing actors could have done this in their sleep. This was collassal waste of my time and my money.

Seriously, Steve McQueen?! This is how you follow up a masterpiece like 12 Years A Slave? Widows has attracted some glowing reviews, but one can only assume they are from people so dazzled by McQueen's reputation that they just can't believe he could direct something this inept. Nevertheless, he's taken a heist story and buried they heist and all heist-related activity so deep within a narrative more concerned with race and political corruption that, despite what you might think from the trailer, this isn't even really a heist movie. In doing so, what was originally a six-hour mini series - with more than enough plot to make a gripping two-hour movie - becomes a slow, lumbering, often tedious ramble, only occasionally enlivened by bursts of action and violence. There's so much preamble and so many arduously introduced sub-plots here that the actual inciting incident for the story - you know, the heist - is damn nearly halfway into the running time. And what would normally be the fun parts of a heist movie - the planning, the training, the problem-solving - is so absent that the heist itself delivers no tension or suspense because we just don't know enough about the masterplan to care. Which results in us never really believing that these women could pull off such a crime. And that rather undermines the entire exercise. McQueen has essentially hijacked his own movie to make various social and political points, but sabotaged himself in the process. The original Widows mini-series certainly contained the raw ingredients for a great heist movie. But this ain't it.