“Widows” (** out of four) was a murky melodrama set in contemporary Chicago about four wives (Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, and Cynthia Erivo) whose husbands die in a botched robbery leading them to take the law into their own hands to try and preserve their financial stability and future while elsewhere a corrupt politician (Colin Farrell) tries to live up to the political legacy of his father (Robert Duvall) leading them all on a collision course of moral ambiguity and fate. Great cast is stranded by a screenplay which meanders in unnecessary directions and rarely connects with any emotional power. And how many endings does the film expect us to sit through? Farrell stands out as usual and him and Duvall play well off each other but Liam Neeson and Garret Dillahunt are frivolously wasted in supporting roles.