Well, from the movie's rating on IMDb and a relatively interesting movie cover/poster, I must admit that I was expecting this movie to be something worthwhile watching.

But it wasn't. This was a snoozefest of epic proportions. Nothing, and I mean that literally, nothing of any worth happened throughout the course of the prolonged and intolerable 45 minutes of suffering I sat through before I just gave up on the movie given the total sense of boredom that permeated the movie.

Sure, the movie was off to an interesting start with the rescue team roaming about the countryside looking for the lost boy Nikita, and then the found the mysterious woman instead and the movie just slipped down a very slippery slope and never recovered. The movie went from being relatively interesting to being a boring event in an instant.

As for the storyline in the movie, well, forget about it, because there isn't really much of anything here. And whatever little there was present in the storyline was just brutally killed by the permeating boredom and sense of pointlessness that oozed from every single scene.

And little did it help that the characters felt like faceless drones milling about. I couldn't tell the characters from one another, not that it really mattered, because the characters had no personalities, no background stories, no traits or quirks to make the unique. It was just a faceless swirl of bodies running around with no aim or purpose. So whatever happened to the characters in the 45 minutes of suffering I sat through didn't matter one ounce.

If you enjoy horror movies, then "The Widow" (aka "Vdova") is not a movie that I would recommend you wasting your money, time or effort on. Some of us did in smaller or greater extend - depending on your tolerance level of watching rubbish - so you don't have to.

This movie was a massive swing and a miss from writers Natalya Dubovaya, Ivan Kapitonov and Ivan Minin. It is actually sort of impressive that not one, but three writers, could collectively manage to churn out something this dreadful.

My rating of "The Widow" lands on a more than generous two out of ten stars, and that is based solely on the atmosphere that there was to the movie. Everything else here was just pointless. And having suffered through 'only' 45 minutes of this ordeal, I can honestly say that there is nothing to lure me back to finish watching the rest of this pointless movie.

In a forest outside of St. Petersburg, Russia people go missing every year not politically related. A crack rescue team along with a reporter are searching for a lost boy when they find a nude woman near dead. The woman gives us the back story of the widow murdered by villagers and how she demands human sacrifices. As they attempt to leave the forest, the forest doesn't allow them to go as they must now fight to survive.

This was a Russian film dubbed in English. Subtitles unavailable. The voices were the same ones used in bad foreign films for the last 50 years. The press lady was acceptable, the rest need to be cut and replaced. Newspapers with Russian headlines appeared important but were not translated. Part of the movie looks like found footage. They even had the dragged from behind scene. Failure to pay attention to details such as this ruined what would be an otherwise decent film.

Guide: No swearing. Brief nudity. No sex.

I really need to start listening to myself when i repeatedly tell myself to turn it off. I just need to see the ending to everything. And even at very fast speeds, it wasn't worth it. I didn't care about anything.

This movie is student-film-level quality. It's 100% boring, 100% useless, 100% pointless. It's a shameless ripoff of the blair witch project, but 1000 times more boring. Which is saying a lot since i gave the blair witch project 1 star because it was unbearably boring.

The majority of this movie falls into two categories. Forest wandering. And the characters telling stories about past events or explaining what the widow is doing. Exposition at its finest (1 viewing, 7/18/2021)