Hello all four readers! The first in-theater movie of 2018 is another Taraji P. Henson vehicle, just like Hidden Figures last year, and this has the benefit of not being horrifically sanitized in it's screenplay to be palatable for a white audience!
No planes, but there's blowing out brains, and automobiles.
Everything is pretty predictable surrounding Mary herself - the real interest comes from the mob family she works with. Or, the mob like...three people. There's her, her adoptive father, and I guess her adoptive brother / former boyfriend and for one scene there's a white guy who never comes back.
The idea of a black mob family is a cool one that I wish had been explored more.
This movie is also extremely oddly edited. There's moments where there's two shots of a building at night that's hinted to be significant but if it's any different from the brown stones in the day time, I couldn't tell you.
You could waste your time worse somewhere else, I wanted to see this to simply support black-female fronted films.
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