Steve McQueen's WIDOWS (2018)

maybe because his son told him he couldn't wait for him to die

This was amazing! Sorta reminded me of The Town but better. Zimmer’s most interesting score for a while too.

I was a little disappointed, expected/wanted more about the women's relationship and less about the machinations of powerful men. Got the feeling it was trying to be somewhat Wire-esque but without the scope of a series it bordered on muddled and unfocused. Nicely shot, acted etc, the heist was quite exciting.

I thought this was great, also surprised by the negative reactions, particularly this one:

"Saw this today; it's about a 2.5 out of 5. It's a half hour too long, with a lot of pointless digressions (Lukas Haas's character should not have gotten a second scene, and Viola Davis and Liam Neeson didn't need a dead son, never mind Carrie Coon's "role"). And how do you make a heist movie without one montage? Davis is good, but Elizabeth Debicki gets most of the best scenes."

Almost every sentence in this is wrong! It's hardly too long, and Neeson and Davis' dead son and Carrie Coon's part are basically reason everything happened the way it did. I do agree that Debicki got a lot of the great scenes and she was really good in it. I kept wondering also if she was incredibly tall or everyone else was just short (she's 6' 3" it turns out).