Rls1020

Certainly a different turn for Melissa McCarthy. Thought the movie was so incredibly violent that it kind of was a turn-off for me. I also wasn't exactly sure what the movie was trying to convey-whether it was just supposed to be a gritty Mafia movie or showing women "cracking the glass ceiling in the Mafia world" in some "female self-empowerment" way. I know it seemed that the women became every bit as greedy and ruthless as the men-you know, kind of a cynical movie in a way. I also somewhat doubted in reality whether Tiffany Haddish's character as a black woman would have been accepted by the notoriously-closed circles of the Irish or the Italian mobsters as readily as they did where she kind of immediately became the boss of the "female godfathers". (Maybe Melissa's character was supposed to kind of be the brains of their outfit, but Tiffany's character was kind of the leader of the "muscle on the streets" outfit.)