Widows 2018 by AverageMansReviews

Widows 2018 by AverageMansReviews

Review Time: this film is poor

Fundamental elements: there are voice-over elements, background music, cultural elements, mental imagery, yes and no to subtitles being used when another language is being used, time jumps and place jumps.

Movement; this film is incredibly slow, minus roughly into the final quarter and beyond, where it does pick up the pace a little; but for the rest of the time, I have seen snails move quicker than this film [minus Turbo from his self-titled film title in 2013 obviously.]

Back stories/Storyline: the back stories either get shown us either at the beginning of the film [with these two different timelines narratives,] mental imagery or in the dialogue exchanges or over dialogue exchanges with imagery of what happened. The storyline itself is something safe and reliable, but having said that with the movement and the pacing of this project it makes it incredibly hard work of it.

Artistic visions/Action sequences: now just to cover my back these are just rough descriptions, but still fairly precise. The first one can be seen as both an artistic visions and an action sequence; where in one of these timelines at the beginning of the film we have this robbery/vehicles chasing with weapons being used, but I am more specifically focusing on the camera work. The camera work in this situation is designed to represent us as if we the audience were in this situation.]

The next one is where we have this bad guy tailing our lead character/role; he is listening to the radio and having a drink of water watching/following her. Now once again the camera work has been designed to represent us the audience, but in this case we are really close up [sitting in the front passenger seat leaning over, I'm just saying leaning over to indicate how close we are to this individual,] so when this bad guy character turns this vehicle would get a very good picture of this scene [outside his window of traffic and so on.]

The next one is where we have these two characters/performers in this vehicle having this argument, but we the audience/camera is situated outside facing the front of this vehicle [we begin at one side of this vehicle] and driver [comes into the shot as the camera moves over to his side of this vehicle with this smooth move across] for this small journey; I do like the imagination, but I also have to point out it is a little bit weird at the same time, based on you would think we the camera would be situated somewhere much, much closer to this situation in the backseat instead of where we are.

The final one is where we have our lead character/performer for an this flare inside this vehicle and entering the driver’s seat of this other vehicle. The camera is situated more on this second vehicle so when she throws this flare in this first vehicle, we the audience are on top of this bonnet to see her in the driving seat and at the same time as she is driving away we can clearly see this first vehicle on fire; yes this can be seen as an action sequence as well.

Action sequences; there are weapons being used, vehicles, training, working out, combat and chasing.

Character developments/Performances: basically all of these characters/performers minus 5 characters/performers do a solid job; yes there is chemistry/friction it is the standard for the character types.

Veronica/Davis, Linda/Rodriguez, Alice/Debicki, Belle/Erivo and Bash/Dillahunt; now individually or in different numbers or combinations these characters/performers are a massive asset to this project

This is one of those occasions where I should explain; if this project have a better foundation or a better movement or spending more time with these characters/performers instead of the other characters/performers of this title; this film would have got given a higher mark from me in this review.

But as this film is there is so much wasted potential here and specifically the female characters/performers; the viewers get to see bits and pieces of this potential I am speaking of but they needed much more time on screen and more consistently to develop it [I should just point out this has nothing to do with the performers themselves, basically what I am saying is this; get them signed up to another project which is better, all working together as soon as possible. Because I am really interested to see what they can do with a better project on every single level [minus the artistic visions and the male role which I have highlighted this character/his last name.

This film receives: 3/10, yes as you can see from an artistic visions perspective and there are other bits and pieces which you can either see or listen to which I haven't put in this review like this Beat Boxing Rapping combination [two characters/performers] and likewise there is lots of potential with the characters/performers which I have discussed as well. But other than that this film is as I have said at the beginning of this review this film is poor.