 Now the best thing we have going for us is being who we are why because no one thinks we have the balls to pull this off well all right mr. McQueen I see you I see you assembling this super duper all-star cast but let's see if it all paid off my name is Brandon Keith Avery and this is just my pen and what's going on guys thank you so much for tuning in to my opinion slash review for widows I really do appreciate it now this movie widows right here this is based off the 1983 British TV series I have not seen that I wasn't even born at the time but that's what this film is based off of it's being directed by Steven McQueen if you are not familiar with him he popped up on the scene for me and mostly everybody else in 2013 when he wrote and directed and I believe produced as well 12 years of slave I'm finna say with David or yellow wall but that is not his name I can't remember that chit chit chit to well edgier for it and if I butchered his name excuse me I thought that film was a great film and so when I found out Steven McQueen was attached to widows I was even more excited now I cannot sit here a lot of you and say that at the beginning of 2018 that widows was in my top 10 most anticipated films of 2018 but when I did find out about the film later on in the year when I found out the cast when I found out the director when I saw the trail I was like oh my gosh this thing has Oscar contender all over and I mean this probably gonna win best picture probably gonna win best director probably gonna win best supporting actor actress and all that good stuff but let's talk about it to see if it actually lives up to that hype now what the film is about is we're gonna take the main star in this film by Ola Davis she is one of the main characters in this film she is married to a gentleman in this film by the name of Harry Rawlings played by Liam Neeson and Leo Neeson is part of this underground group this sect this organization of people that go around and steal things from either good people or bad people if you want to know you have to just see and if it's justified or not you're just gonna have to see the film and he crossed the wrong people and stole from the wrong people so we have Brian Tyree Henry in this he plays Jamal Manning he wants his money back he wants his two million dollars back I'm not spoiling anything this is all over the trailers or so all of Davis is scared like damn I don't know anything about my husband's past business he's not here to save me I'm a widow now I need to team up with the other widows and see what we can do to get these monkeys off of our backs so that is the plot of the film now some of the positives in this film is the ending I did not expect the ending at all you know it was a breath of fresh air that will make more sense when you see the film and you know what I'm talking about so you can have some type of context so I didn't expect the ending the ending of the film was pretty much the best thing to me also Steven McQueen he did some things with the camera that I've never seen any film before and I like that when I see something fresh something new something that has never been presented to me before with his camera movements early on in the film there was I guess we can just call it a heist but the way he had the camera in the back of the van was some type of first-person shooter view I was just really drawn in I was at the edge of my seat it like I said it was something that I never seen before you know when the people involved in this scene they were moving back and forth I was kind of moving back and forth to it was just a great inventive way to incorporate what he was trying to capture and I liked it I liked it a lot now as far as everything else I mean we're gonna talk about the performances the best performance in this movie does go to Viola Davis and I would say the second place goes to Brian Tyree Henry I really did like his performance if you don't know him he popped up on the scene for me in the FX show Atlanta play that is show ran by Donald Glover now as far as the positives in this film that's pretty much all of them I'm not gonna waste you guys time and I'm not joking I'm I'm being serious right now but this film widows is the most disappointing film of the entire year I was very disappointed with this film I was bored out of my mind for act one or act two if it wasn't for act three this film will possibly get like a D minus or an F and you're probably saying like oh my gosh Brandon what the hell are you serious well yes I am serious and let's just go ahead and give him to everything that really frustrated the hell out of me with this film first of all we have the widows in this film I just really didn't care about them I couldn't sympathize with them I couldn't empathize with them I mean I could sympathize with them somewhere but I found myself asking this question should I feel sorry for these women here did I mean like you know did they deserve what they're getting I mean the film just did not give me enough reason to care for them I mean other than the plot telling you to there was just nothing about the performance nothing about their acting just nothing to why I'm just like damn I really hope that these women get out of this situation you know I want them to win I want them to prevail I want them to be on top none of those emotions or thoughts crossed my mind while I was watching this also in this film it's kind of hard to determine who is the good guy and the bad guy and when I say that is like you know when it comes to Brian Tyree Henry's character I mean I'm still on the fence whether I sure root for him or not and just a number of other characters too now something else that really just bug me is is that is this whole plot believable now the reason what I'm what do I mean by that what I mean is you had Liam Neeson's character that are like these expert these expert Heisman or henchmen or whatever you know they go around doing all this dirt underground behind the scenes and things like that and for the most part of the film says you that they're at the top of the game I mean you know I'm talking like oceans 11 style on top of the game but they ended up dead because they I don't know they just didn't cross all the teaser dot all their eyes but they're professional but then given the timeline that the widows had to pay back the money in this film I'm just saying okay if these experts could not pull off the job they have been doing this over and over and over for many years on top of years what makes you think some widows that have never had any experience with underground life at all life in the streets how in the hell can they pull this off some of them can't even shoot a gun some of them never even seen a gun in their entire life or even know how to buy one but I'm supposed to buy I'm supposed to buy that they're just supposed to just you know just jump into this underground lifestyle and just you know go and get two million dollars and pay it back to these people and these people and then just walk out squeaky clean I mean that's just kind of like a hard pill for me to swallow and I didn't swallow at all now as far as the cast is concerned let's just go down the list Viola Davis I stated that she had the best performance but they did not come in towards the end of the film early on in the film I mean she was just mourning and of course she has a reason to her husband died she's a widow but the another film came out earlier this year why am I getting everybody's names wrong how to say Sebastian Stan the guy the astronaut guy Ryan Gosling first man there was a lot of complaints about that movie to where you know it just seemed like you know he wasn't acting at all he was just kind of staring in the space looking at nothing or whatever and that's just kind of how I felt about Viola Davis's performance early on but towards the end in the third act that's what they came through from I was like okay damn you know you did a great job Liam Neeson he's not in the film that much but he did a okay job John Bernthal he's in the trailers but he's only in this film for just like half a second okay now we have Michelle Rodriguez I mean she did a okay job she didn't do bad she didn't do good Elizabeth Debicki she did a little bit better I was entertained by her but it was just really nothing to knock my socks off now Robert DeVall and Colin Ferrell they have some pretty good scenes too when I was doing a little bit of my research Stephen McQueen stated that he had them improvising a lot and you can definitely tell especially where Robert DeVall's performance because I want to say kind of towards the end of the second act I mean it was I was entertained but at the same time I felt that he was just yelling I mean Robert DeVall is an Oscar he's not a nominee he's a winner I can't remember how many times but I know he's won at least once or twice or whatever but at one point time I felt like he was just screaming and it was a good performance but I really just couldn't tie it there had there was no context to it it didn't tie with anything in the story or any of the surrounding environment or the situation so I'm just kind of like okay bro while I'm entertained and send you yell and I understand that you're upset about something but it really just doesn't make sense to me also in this fan with you know that was directed by Stephen Queen he wrote it too did he write this thing too he wrote it and I believe he produces as well on top of directing it I also feel that he missed the mark when he was trying to adapt to black American culture there was just some things that because he's a Brit I don't I've never been over there so I can't talk about it too much but there was just some things that identify with black American culture over here that he missed by a mile there was just one scene with the black church and nothing I mean I grew up in the black church and I know how I know all the ins and outs you know I'm saying people to look like me or people that don't look like me to have gone to black church y'all know what the deal is here in America and he just missed the mark with that it just I didn't feel like I was in church I'm just like I don't know I just wasn't feeling it you know I'm saying a lot you know what I'm talking about I just wasn't feeling it there was and I'm kind of feel like I'm just kind of skipping around right there but also with the improvisation with some of the characters it just it just didn't do it for me but sorry let me go back to the cast I just thought about that real quick but Conifer he did a good job I said second place as far as the acting is concerned that does go to Brian Tyree Henry and there is one more cast member that I want to talk about Daniel Kaluuya while I'm just scrolling down real quick because I really want to make sure that I don't miss oh yeah Cynthia Arrivo I knew I was missing somebody she did a great job in bad times at the LWL she's also the film is filming right now Harry she's playing Harriet Tubman gonna be the film is gonna be called Harriet I'm disappointed about that I could talk about that later she did an okay job in this film she was barely in it as well now the last part the last cast person that I want to talk about we talked about the whole cast and I pretty much said that they did a decent job and I talked about Valid Davis and Brian Tyree Henry they pretty much stole the show as far as their performances are concerned but let's get down to brother Kaluuya Mr. Get Out Mr. Get Out he got out of that house so fast and ran to Wakanda and turned himself into Wakabi I mean he was great and get out he was fantastic in Black Panther as Wakabi and please try to look up on YouTube right now the deleted scene of him talking to his wife Okoye so he knocked it out in those two films but this film right here widows pretty much one of the worst performances I have seen in my and so I don't want to exaggerate to say my entire life but honestly this is one of the worst performances I've seen in all of 2018 no lie this is not a joke I am everything serious I don't understand what happened I think I do and I'm gonna tell you here in this a little bit but there your Kaluuya's role was supposed to be trying to play some stereotypical thugged out triple OG type of figure you know I'm saying an original gangsta just somebody that you don't mess with somebody that you don't double cross somebody to where if you look at them wrong they gonna put a bullet in your head or just beat the hell out of you you know I'm saying he was supposed to be one of the antagonists one of the antagonists in this film I was finna say protagonist he's one of the antagonists in this film and it just wasn't convincing it was corny it was damn near a laugh out loud friendly like bro what are you doing you I am not convinced you look like a fool try to play the threat I mean it was comical I mean like I was worried and when I saw the trailer one of the things that I was worried about I'm just like bro like okay I haven't seen the film you look a little silly in the trailer but let me see the film and let me get the context of all your mannerism things like that maybe gonna hit this hole maybe gonna knock it out the park you know I'm saying hit a home run but y'all know in the trailer where he's all up in the dude's face going like this you know like all up in here trying to act all hard and stuff like that it looks silly in the trailer and it look even dumber in the movie I'm just like what is going on I'm looking to my left looking at my right like do y'all see this shit this is trash this is garbage I don't know what happened in like please go see the movie just it just was wack I mean like every time a movie or is introducing an antagonist they always have that one scene or two especially the very beginning of the movie to that they're murdering someone or torturing someone and I'm just like okay damn like this guy right here you don't want to mess with them you know I'm saying it just sets the tone for the rest of the picture from the moment Daniel Kalloy popped on stage or up on screen I'm just like bro sit your ass down you know I'm saying I love you my brother you know I'm saying I I want to support you and all your acting chops now and on to the future but this right here bro you did just a horrible job and I don't blame you I know you can act cuz you did a great job and get out and in Black Panther and everything else I also saw that episode of Black Mirror or whatever I've only seen two episodes of all the seasons they got but it was one to word you know the one where he was in where they locked you in the room and you got to pay the credits and the porn comes up and like makes you jack off and stuff like that makes you master it was freaking weird or whatever but he did a great job of that too but this right here was trash and I have to blame the director for this I have to blame Stephen Queen because you have this whole cast this everybody in this whole cast can act they freaking behind off but it didn't come through in this film and I just blame on the director I mean in every other movie if y'all can just give these great fantastic performances but then when y'all come together when y'all assemble like a damn Avengers and y'all some of y'all nearly crap the bed that can only be blamed on the director also I just blame on the director I mean there was so many people in this movie that just didn't do anything I mean like he just it's like okay man if you give if you have one toy or two toys if you like toys you know I'm saying you're gonna play with them you're gonna figure out the mechanics and stuff like that if you have an Optimus Prime toy you're gonna be able to transform and do all this and focus on it you know I'm saying but he had too many toys to where he's like oh I don't know what to do with me like I want to play with this one but I gotta play with this one over here I gotta play with this and the plot of this film was like scattered like you had too many random events happening it's okay we would just hear in this scene now why are we way over here like I don't understand I don't really feel like it's coming together and it's distracting me it's clocking me out and I'm just like losing interest on board and I kind of want to go home now I will give Stephen Quinn credit it all did come together in the end full circle so I will give him that that's why I said at the beginning of this review that the ending of the film saved it and it was it was great but it was it was just too spread apart I mean I was dreading the first 2x I was really ready to go home I was like I don't want to watch this movie no more and I don't even let me see how long this thing is real quick okay where's okay this movie is two hours and nine minutes okay yeah and that seems about writing this crime drama romance something else that I want to talk about real quick is okay random okay oh yeah that's what I was on talking about I knew I was leaving something out now I recently had a film I recently did the review for instant family with Mark Wahlberg and I said in that review go check it out please subscribe go check it out I said in that review that I was surprised with all the all the race issues that they addressed and I think it was integrated in that film very well it was all cohesive what Steven McQueen tried to do in this film with the race did not make sense and I'm not talking about bad winching or anything like that I don't I don't have a problem with that as long as one of the the darker skin party does not turn into a cone when it had to do with like race relations and trying to label his characters with like what were they fall in the justice line of things like that he had a one white character use the word nigger and I was okay he's a racist but then again I just wasn't convinced because usually when I happen to any other film like oh okay okay you know it moves you I can feel it it feel like I got stabbed in my heart or something like that and I'm immediately know from that point okay this is the bad guy we want him to lose I did not feel that in this movie we had another character in this film there was extremely jealous of black guys like have you ever asking a white man asking a woman have you ever slept with a black man before have you ever I don't know where it came from and yeah I mean we they're all men like that in the world that do exist there will lose their ever minds if they find out that a white woman or any woman is dating a black person or a brown person and it'll just freak them the f out so him and putting that to the film yes it's realistic to the real world but it just did not fit in this film it just felt random I was okay bro you kind of feel there and then just another example and why I said Steve McQueen failed to mean when he's trying to adapt things they have to do with a lot of black American culture and then again guys there was just really no motivation for the other characters the other widows in this movie to join Viola Davis I mean it made sense for Viola Davis and what this plan to come through but it did not make sense for everybody else and guys I would just oh one more thing I want to talk about is like I don't mind sex being in the film I don't um especially if it's necessary for example we all seen the movie Green Mile where Tom Hanks he had I forgot what condition he had but he couldn't have he couldn't have sex with his wife he couldn't smash his wife what if I forgot what it but anyway Mark my clock Duncan you know grabbed his piece Hildum and all that good stuff he went home smashed the crap out of his wife you know I'm saying and they kind of showed some of it that was necessary okay I mean there was a reason for it in the plot I mean he couldn't have sex with his wife sex is very important in the marriage probably one of the number one is the top three most important probably top two you know communication and personal space is very important as well you know that's what my mom and dad tell me and some other married people that are like you what I'm saying but also the movie Monsters Ball with Holly Berry you know when she smashed Billy Bob Thornton giving her mental state in that position in the context of the film I feel that was necessary but in this year right here you have some excessive French tongue kissing lip locking for no reason at all it's like why are they doing okay like I mean yeah people everybody kissing everybody then use they tongue to kiss somebody in the world I hope so if you're an adult like if not I don't know what to tell you I hope so so but and it's a private matter and I don't mind that being in the film but if it's just in the film for no damn reason why is it there and there it is in the same at the very beginning and then it come across passionate or love making it just came across as gross like some two teenagers trying to just act like adults at the Friday Night Football game behind the bleachers or something like that I mean the two characters that was lip locking like this just slobbing each other down it would be different if those films told us okay they haven't seen each other in 15 years or they haven't had sex in a long time or you know they haven't drawn something like that it was just random lip locking and a random tongue licking and a lot like it looked like two windows just going at it and I'm not the only one who complained about everybody was like and these are adults that are even and even and stuff like that it's not that they would be in children or childhoods whatever so guys like I said this film is just really really disappointing to me it all came together for a circle in the end and the twist or a thing that popped up in the middle of the film you're not gonna guess it and I will give it that but I am very very very disappointed with this film it let me down and damn I think the worst thing was Daniel Kaluuya's performance it was it was just trash if you go around tomatoes right now I think just like 92% and I am not one of those people that agree with it all films are subjective if I had to write with those out of a 1 out of 10 it barely passes it barely passes but I'm gonna give it a 6 out of 10 yes a 6 out of 10 and that is only because of the ending or the third act idea bring it back up but guys that is just my opinion have you seen widows or do you want to see it have I turned your own have I turned you off do you agree with me or do you disagree with me let me know down in the comment section below let's get this conversation going to keep you flowing if you liked this video go ahead and give me the thumbs up and if you don't that's fine but you can still subscribe to my channel and guys I'm like right there in like 6,000 I think I didn't like 10 more the time I'm recording this video well I reached 10,000 subscribers by the end of the year what it is up to two people it is 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