andy Kline

From the trailer and commercials, I was sold on going to a complex, action heist movie. Instead I saw a two hour plus movie about relationships, coping, grieving and city politics with a very simple robbery that takes place in the last ten minutes of the movie. It is a deftly directed movie with intelligent cinematic touches and cinematography, great acting and actors, but yet with all that, it rambles slowly and unconnected too often. Too many plot lines just don’t make sense and the worst crime of all, Viola Davis’s central character is not likeable. I could not connect to caring about what happens to her. My heart wasn’t with her. I could root for her cohort widows, but not Viola. Bottom line: the movie is really misrepresented in its trailers as an action heist film and it’s not. It’s about some widows caught in the middle of dirty local politics while trying to steal money to get ahead and via a very thin link, keep the bad guys from bothering them. Too slow, too disjointed, too many storylines that barely cross each other.