Sitting In The Aisle: Sinners

Sinners 10/10

This is one of those movies where I want everyone to see it so I don't wanna spoil it too much but even after being out just a few days there is a lot of reviews where the title of the posts give it away. So this will have spoilers but I wont and wouldn't even be able to describe everything that happens in this incredible movie. Sinners is one of those movies that gives me feelings that I get from watching a movie every few years. One of those movies that makes me think “I'm glad a theater is a thing.” My lady already wants to watch it again and so do I in one of them big ass IMAX theaters.

Before seeing this I had seen a trailer and thought it was a movie about a bunch of people fighting vampires in a bar. I also thought this would easily have been a Jonathan Majors movie. I was wrong about each of these because Michael B. Jordan was prefect in this and it does not take place in a church...but it does start and end in one. Young Sammie aka Preacher's Boy walks into his father's church covered in scars and blood with his father telling him to put the guitar (which is smashed to shit) down. Then we go back a day or so to meet twins Elijah and Elias aka Smoke and Stack. I shit you not, I forgot their actual names. They plan on using money they got from Chicago to open up a juke joint. They purchase the property from a racist ass dude named Hogwood.

The brothers begin to round up a group to help with the opening beginning with Sammie who is their cousin. They get Delta Slim who plays blues, Pearline who sings (and Sammie falls for), some shopkeepers named Grace and Bo, a field worker named Cornbread, and Annie to cook who is the very estranged wife of Smoke. They had a child together that died. Annie is into doing stuff with roots and herbs and is all about protection. Stack got woman problems with this lady named Mary that he boned down with and left behind. Meanwhile this dude that is sizzling like bacon goes to this house and asks to come in because he is running from Choctaw. The couple let him in and as the Choctaw later approaches they say he (Remmick) ain't there and they are like “If he is you should tell us because...yeah.” They then ride off. The lady heads back into the house and Remmick is sitting there bloody and her now vampire husband stands up. Don't feel too bad. They were Klan members.

It is time for opening night! Everyone shows up and is having a great time. Smoke is upset that they are accepting plantation money that can't be spent or used anywhere but at those locations. Sammie is playing his ass off so hard that spirits from the past present and future are dancing in the place. It was one of the coolest visual scenes I've seen in any movie. All this fun gets the attention of Remmick and his two new friends. They wanna come inside and drink and are denied. They say they play music and it is corny and catchy but they are not allowed inside. Basic vampire rules! Some of you need to use this in real life. Mary's goofy ass is like “This place needs money. Let me go talk to them.” She heads out and they give her some gold coins and she comes back acting all sexy. She gets with Stack and start having crazy vampire sex until Smoke bursts into the room and unloads a clip in her. She laughs off the bullets and dives out. Cornbread gets his ass attacked and changed, too.

The juke joint empties out and there are just a few people left. There is a massive battle with people I thought would survive do not. By the way, I would've been tossed Grace's ass out the place. There is a lot more including two after credit scenes (we missed the second) but I don't wanna ruin more than I have. I will say there is a crazy ass music number and a lot of blood and gunfire. 

I can't say enough good things about this movie. The way it was shot. The acting. The MUSIC was incredible. There is more humor in this than I expected. I told my lady that this felt like we sat through an entire season of a series that didn't need a sequel or anything. It felt thorough. There is a lot or blogs and articles and interviews about this movie that break down a lot of significance this movie holds because all's I can say is “Movie good. Go see.” (edit) Something I totally forgot to mention. While watching the movie I was so caught up in the brothers getting this club up and running that I kinda forgot that vampires were even involved in it. Much like in the first Captain America movie where they made me care about Steve Rogers before he got powers this movie had me invested in these characters before all the crazy action kicked off.

Michael B. Jordan as Elijah "Smoke" Moore and Elias "Stack" Moore

Hailee Steinfeld as Mary

Miles Caton as Sammie "Preacher Boy" Moore

Buddy Guy as older Sammie Moore

Jack O'Connell as Remmick

Wunmi Mosaku as Annie

Jayme Lawson as Pearline

Omar Benson Miller as Cornbread

Delroy Lindo as Delta Slim

Li Jun Li as Grace Chow

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