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.

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.

When I read the synopsis for the 2016 comedy "Black Widows", I must admit that I was definitely intrigued, and it sounded like "Black Widows" from writer Jordan Elizabeth and director Venita Ozols-Graham could be a very enjoyable movie.

And now just having seen the movie, I must admit that I perhaps did have my hopes and expectations up a tad too much for this movie. Sure, "Black Widows" was watchable, but it was ultimately a rather generic and rather forgetable movie actually.

The storyline was sort of bland. The concept of the movie was good and there was a lot of potential, I will say that much. But the pacing of the narrative was just soul-suckingly slow and there wasn't really a whole lot of interesting things going on throughout the course of the movie. And that was ultimately a drainer to the overall experience of the movie.

The acting performances in the movie were good. And while I am not familiar with lead actresses Brigitte Graham, Megan Messmer and Brandy Redd, then I will say that they put on good performances and carried the movie quite well.

"Black Widows" didn't impress me, and this is not really a movie that I would recommend you rush out to get to watch. And for me, this movie was the type of movie that you watch once and never again.

My rating of "Black Widows" lands on a four out of ten stars.