What Men Want (2019) – Summary, Review (With Spoilers)
What Men Want may be a reimagining of What Women Want, but Taraji P. Henson not only makes the movie premise her own but brings a truly hilarious experience.
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What Men Want Ending Explained (Spoilers)
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Is A Sequel Possible?
Not likely, unless Ali gets hit in the head the right way and can suddenly hear women, or everyone.
How The Movie Ends
After years of trying to impress Nick, thinking Kevin was the partner who, anonymously, didn’t vote for her, with landing Jamal Barry, Ali is finally promoted. However, years of disrespect, Nick saying, when she almost lost Jamal, that he’d fire her if it weren’t for the #MeToo movement, it leads to Ali leaving once she gets that validation that she could have become a partner. Kevin joins her, and they create an agency with the acronym DAM.
Also, post-Will learning Ali was using him to impress Joe, who is very family oriented, he decides to give her a third chance after accusing him of cheating – on his dead ex-wife. Then, him discovering he was being used, alongside his five going on six-year-old son Ben. Leading to Ali having a happily ever after ending.
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I actually didn’t feel the run time too much, until it tried to be deeper and actually address the non-shallow parts of what men think. In those moments, it became clear the film didn’t really know what to do with itself so it went for sappy and it got bleh.
This movie would have been so much better if it was 20 minutes shorter