she’s the survivor at the end and he’s the one who ends up helping the Candyman. I would have liked to see Teyonah doing some more sleuthing as her hubby loses his mind, and I would have liked to have seen a bit more of what made Colman who he was.
The movie also commits the cardinal sin of just having characters brush off something that in the real world, people would have severe reactions to. In this case, I’m talking about that gruesome bee sting on Yahya’s hand that almost immediately begins to make his arm look gangrenous. Why isn’t everyone telling this guy to get his ass to a hospital?
I was also a little iffy on Yahya’s performance. He wasn’t bad but something about it just seemed off to me. He’s a great actor but I’m not sure I bought him as this visionary artist-type.
Still, I really liked the movie and thought it was a good expansion of the Candyman mythos while also exploring the realities of racist police brutality, even if a lot of it was on the nose. I will definitely watch the next one, which hopefully will feature a bigger role for Teyonah.