Sinners [Movie Review]

 Sinners [Movie Review] | The trailer gets me interested. I wanted to watch it with my sister, but she refused. She is a scaredy cat.

I went and watched it on my own. 

SYNOPSIS

Sinners (2025) Trivia

• Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Miller, Buddy Guy, Delroy Lindo & Li Jun Li
• Director: Ryan Coogler
• Producer: Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian & Ryan Coogler
• Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures & Proximity Media

• Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures

• Release date: April 18, 2025
• Running time: 138 minutes
• Rating: MA
• Country: United States
• Language: English
• IMDb: 8.2/ 10
• Tomatometer: 98%
• Metascore: 84% 
• Christopher Nolan and his wife, producer Emma Thomas, helped Ryan Coogler shoot on 65mm film. 
• This is the second R-rated horror film to be shot with IMAX Film Cameras after Nope (2022).
• Michael B. Jordan called the film a unique experience, saying playing twins in his first horror role made it special. Though not a horror fan at first, the project helped him appreciate the genre. Hailee Steinfeld praised his seamless performance, saying he set the tone for the whole cast.
• Jack O’Connell signed on after a single read-through, drawn by the chance to sing Irish folk music—a dream for the longtime fan.
• Delroy Lindo didn’t read the script as a horror story. To him, it was about a community being infiltrated and turning on itself. He shared that perspective with Ryan Coogler after one read, along with some notes on what needed work. Coogler agreed, and from the start, they were aligned on the story’s direction.

In 1932, the Moore twin brothers Elijah “Smoke” and Elias “Stack” return to the Mississippi Delta. They’ve seen war, lived fast in Chicago and left with dirty money after working for Al Capone. Back home, they buy a sawmill from a racist landowner and turn it into a juke joint. The joint is a haven for the Black community to gather, play music and dance. Their young cousin Sammie, a gifted guitarist with dreams bigger than the Delta, joins them, despite his preacher father’s warnings that the blues is the Devil’s music.

The juke joint hums to life with the help of a ragtag crew. The crew enlist Delta Slim on piano, Pearline behind the mic and it happens that Sammie has his eyes on her too, Annie who Smoke’s estranged wife and an African witch doctor as the cook, the Chinese married couple Grace and Bo Chow on supplies and a field-hand-turned-bouncer named Cornbread. 

Not soon after, darkness circles. A vampire named Remmick, an Irish immigrant fleeing Choctaw hunters, arrives in town, turning two Klansmen into his undead soldiers.

On the opening night, Sammie’s music and singing open a portal, drawing spirits and stirring something ancient. Remmick takes notice. He and his bloodthirsty brood try to enter the joint, disguising themselves as travelling musicians but turned down by the More brothers as 'they are too white'.  He then offers riches, protection, and power if Sammie plays for them. The brothers refuse. But the night turns bloody. Mary, Stack’s old flame, now a vampire, seduces and bites him. Bo, Cornbread, and others are turned. Grace dies fighting, along with Annie and Slim. The juke joint becomes a war zone.

Remmick makes one last pitch to Smoke and Sammie where he can give them freedom and immortality beyond the reach of racism and death. Sammie nearly believes him, but after a final showdown, Smoke stakes Remmick just as the sun rises. Remmick, along with the brood that he has turned, burns. Smoke dies avenging Annie by killing the racist landowner and his gang. Sammie, heartbroken, walks away from salvation and into exile.

Decades later, Stack and Mary, still undead, find Sammie, now an old blues legend in Chicago and repeats the same offer.

Will Sammie accept the offer?

MY REVIEW

What I Like:  

• The cast - they were great.   
• The plot twist at the end - wait until the movie's end. 

What I Don't Like:

• I want more horror scenes. 

Will I Watch It Again: Yes, I would..  

Overall: 4.6/ 5.0

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