Black Widows (2016) Reviews

• Bland misandry masquerading as female empowerment.

  jmclennan2017-03-18

  Three women friends - Darcy (Elizabeth), Nora (Graham) and Olivia (Kocee) - are all having terrible luck with their relationships. Olivia is in the middle of an ugly divorce from Adam. Nora's boyfriend Ryan is a control freak. And while Darcy's new friend Blair (Brown) initially seems fine, he turns out to be the worst of them all. After he refuses to take no for an answer, the trio decide revenge is a dish best served naked in the middle of the desert. Unfortunately for him, Blair ends up lacking a pulse. Unfortunately for the film, it takes forever to get to this point, and for the vast majority of its running-time the promised "dark comedy" is neither dark nor comedic. The writer of this was a date-rape victim herself, and it pains me to say so, but this might be the problem. According to the director, "This was an opportunity for her to wrestle with her demons." It would probably have been better if she'd gone to therapy, written bad poetry or anything, rather than trying to turn those demons into a movie - especially one apparently trying to occupy any subgenre of comedy. For what comes over here is a relentless, bitter tone of (probably understandable, I will admit, given the writer's history) distrust and loathing of the opposite sex, which permeates every scene of the film to such an extent that any potential humour is strangled. You can't even call it dark, it's closer to... jaundiced. If the film had started with the three women standing over Blair's body, and gone forward from there, it might have worked. For the trio have a cheerfully apathetic approach to the escalating mayhem, and there finally is dark comedy present, in the way they bicker about trivia like getting blood on their shoes. However, it is the very definition of "too little, too late," and any interest and attention was already pushing up the daisies by this point.

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• see this..it's fun

  pryndar2016-08-11

  I loved this film...it took me back to the 60's and the dark comedies like Putney Swope and early Peter Sellers movies...I love the dark yet subtle laughs of those films...and if you didn't get it...well we were not going to the movies again! The fact that the ladies were falling in "murder" all the time just cracked me up.I was blown away by the actress who played "Nora" Bridget Graham..this is a star on the rise.It is hard to be beautiful AND funny..she stole the show.I really got a kick out of way the gals were stumbling though this nightmare...rather Marx Brothers-ish.Kick back and get ready for some giggles...The second time for me was better because I knew the punchline,as it were...and it was fun to go back in time (my 20's) and imagine a few times I wish these were my girlfriends

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• "Spider Hater"

  rynoauto-org2016-08-10

  The beginning of this movie creeped me out from the intro. I hate spiders, so I was quite reluctant to let the reel roll on. However, I had to find out what these ladies were up to. I discovered that the 3 close friends were just trying to live with the men they thought, loved them. Halfway in and I could sense the need they had to kill and eat their mate, as the title so creatively describes. These girls had quite the sense of humor throughout the entire film and Nora was hilarious when she had to talk to a cop. Great acting by the guys for their creepy dickhead antics and they really got what the deserved. The music was spot on and the timing of each soundtrack was pretty creative. I would see it again. Not too sure how I'll sleep tonight, maybe on the couch with a flashlight or gun in my hand. "jus tiddin" Great job.

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• Worst Movie I've seen this year.

  groundworkd2016-12-09

  My favorite genre is black/dark comedy Whomever was deranged enough to give this 10 stars should be sushi punched. Bad acting, the sets all look like soulless bad porno sets. The women seem vapid and no there is not good enough motive for their murders. They come off as totally sociopaths and the feeble attempts for dark humor fall flat. I have 15 minutes left of this dreck and think I will just finish this review and then shut it off. Too many great movies then to waste it on a horrid flick that is nothing but one man hating moment after another. Unless you're below 18, you really don't need to have parasite friends who you depend on for all advice and support. I think its solely an American female type of deal. Women in other countries are more mature (whatever their social standing may be) and depend on family and life interest then hanging around with other women and constantly being on the make. Terrible movie and only basic common females could enjoy it.

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• Terrible

  Lexiii672017-07-31

  I don't see anything cute or funny about murdering four guys. Granted the first guy deserved it, the other two were jerks but didn't deserve to die. The last guy was a cop doing his job. How is this adorable? If this movie were about men killing women it wouldn't have been acceptable. And how were these three morons not caught? Totally unbelievable movie and a waste of my time. Bad acting as well.

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