This is actually the last act of a rather extensive drama of Mexican family drug cartels involved in endless vendetta operations, having great difficulties in killing each other. If you haven't seen the previous acts, you will be rather overwhelmed and confused by the goings-on here, as you only see the end of the stories without the stories. Nevertheless, even without its four preceding acts, the last act is fascinating and engaging enough, especially because of the main character, the black widow herself, who performs a marvellous act of sustained and well controlled fury, grief, despair, anxiety, love and passion, with even an overwhelming tenderness and concern for her family. In the beginning you find her in an obscure cafeteria in a dark corner of Canada in winter at an odd job as an anonymous employee, but her past catches up with her, and in a brawl she is exposed by news sensationalists as the 'black widow' who everyone thought dead years ago. She is brought to trial in Holland, this is a Dutch film, but you will probably see it dubbed into any other language. It was a great box office success, and it is thrilling and fascinating indeed, like a very late noir of astronomical proportions - when all is settled and all vendettas seem to be done with, there will still be one more casualty too much.
Review of Black Widow
