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Message: [QUOTE="nwhoopfan, post: 3032478, member: 7894"] Saw "Widows" a few days ago. Decent, some pacing problems. Took a LONG time to get going, and kept grinding to a halt w/ flashback scenes (a bit of a diatribe--non-linear story telling has become so common place that I think at this point linear story telling would actually be kind of edgy; give it a rest already Hollywood, it's been done to death). Liam Neeson seemed out of place in this one. There were some good tough guy character actors (Jon Bernthal, Garret Dillahunt) that didn't hang around long. The main actresses, the title characters, all did fine. Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki. This was a complex movie, lots going on, maybe too much. The side story about a very dirty election race for alderman in Chicago between Colin Farrell and Brian Tyree Henry (and his henchman brother Daniel Kaluuya--that guy is everywhere lately) could have been it's own movie. [/QUOTE]