Queens on the Run Review – Not Much Fun
What happens when four friends decide to take an impromptu road trip without telling anybody about it? Apparently – absolute chaos.
Directed by Jorge Macaya, the 2023 Netflix movie “Queens on the Run” (Fuga de Reinas) stars Martha Higareda, who has also written the script for this girls-trip comedy. While Martha plays the trophy wife of a politician who keeps making her undergo the knife to look perfect, actors Paola Núñez, Alejandra Ambrosi, and Valeria Vera join her as fellow friends who aren’t too happy with their personal lives and decide they deserve a fun road adventure.
While “Queens on the Run” does have a few funny moments, it gets chaotically clichéd, with recycled jokes and madness that isn’t all that entertaining to watch. All the four leads, who play characters in their late 30s or early 40s (an exact age isn’t mentioned, but there are constant jokes about how they are not young and hot anymore), behave like annoying children for most of the runtime. Besides, for a women-led film that’s about letting your hair back and relaxing, the conversations are heavily centered around men.
Despite its crisp runtime, the script gets slow and mundane fast. From meeting hookers, hippies, mafia and who the hell not, overall, “Queens on the Run” is extremely random, and not the great kinds. Depending on your mood, you may or may not find it as comedic as it tries to be.
It’s a 4 on 10 from me. You can stream the film on Netflix.
