Sinners

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When the trailer for "Sinners" came out, I was immediately sold on vampires, Michael B. Jordan, and Ryan Coogler. As the release date came closer, the buzz got better and better. It made me very interested in seeing what this could be. Through Coogler's career his film's have stayed rather high on the tomatometer. "Sinners" is his highest rated at 97 while his lowest is "Wakanda Forever" at 84 percent. Hopefully I can give some insight.

  Smoke and Stack (Michael B Jordan) come back to Mississippi to try to leave their gangster lives behind. On the opening night of their club, an unimaginable evil is waiting to welcome them back.

 The themes of the film really stand out likely because of the way they are presented. The story is set in the 1930's in the deep south. Racism at this time is rampant and so is the struggle people have. All people want to do is make it anyway they can. The twins want to make it in their new lives, while also trying to give the people of the community a place to let loose. Even if they are struggling financially. The vampires are the metaphor for the racism at the time. It is all about the people of the black community have been disenfranchised and Remmick ( Jack O'Connell) is here to save them all. What keeps this from being generic is making it vampires. 

 

I would say that as a whole the performances in this film are great from Delroy Lindo to Hailee Steinfeld and Jack O'Connell. Jordan does stand out from the others in his dual roles as twins Smoke and Stack. Watching this film, it gave me the same impression I  had watching "Adaptation". Both performances are distinct and very different from one another. The twins are the emotional core to this film. It rides or dies with him.  

   It has been five hours since I have left this screening and still have not seemed to come up with a negative for this film.

GRADE: A+ 

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