“Left with nothing. Capable of anything.”
After a police shootout kills four thieves during a robbery in Chicago, the women they leave behind are forced to face the debts attached to their husbands’ crimes. With little in common except loss and pressure, they decide to work together and attempt a heist of their own. What begins as a scramble to survive turns into a plan shaped by grief, risk and resolve.
Steve McQueen directs the film, shaping a tense crime story around a group of widows who refuse to stay trapped by what has been left to them. Viola Davis leads the cast as one of the women trying to turn desperation into action, while Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki and Cynthia Erivo play the others drawn into the same dangerous plan. Their characters carry the burden of the robbery’s aftermath and the growing demands of the job they take on.
Set in Chicago, the film moves through a world of pressure, mistrust and criminal fallout. Its mood is hard-edged and urgent, with the emotional weight of loss running alongside the mechanics of a heist. The story balances crime drama tension with a bleak sense of people trying to reclaim control when the life around them has already collapsed.
Steve McQueen directs the film, shaping a tense crime story around a group of widows who refuse to stay trapped by what has been left to them. Viola Davis leads the cast as one of the women trying to turn desperation into action, while Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki and Cynthia Erivo play the others drawn into the same dangerous plan. Their characters carry the burden of the robbery’s aftermath and the growing demands of the job they take on.
Set in Chicago, the film moves through a world of pressure, mistrust and criminal fallout. Its mood is hard-edged and urgent, with the emotional weight of loss running alongside the mechanics of a heist. The story balances crime drama tension with a bleak sense of people trying to reclaim control when the life around them has already collapsed.
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6.5 / 10