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‘Sinners’ Review: Ryan Coogler & Two Michael B. Jordans Reteam For A Blues-Filled Vampire Movie Like No Other
A review of ' Sinners' with director Ryan Coogler and star Michael B. Jordan reteaming in half gangster/half vampire movie wrapped in the blues.
Although it starts with a disturbing scene where a young man in duress enters his preacher father’s church service in rural Clarksville, MS, the story quickly switches to 24 hours earlier and the beginning of life-altering events all taking place in a single day. Prohibition-Era gangsters Smoke and Stack (both played by Jordan) are identical twins now returning to their hometown after years away in the battlefields of World War I and the ganglands of Chicago, and with them is their truck full of liquor and ambition to bring their big-city expertise to Clarksville where they plan to open Club Juke that is, to say the least, out of the ordinary for this town of sharecroppers. The film’s first hour or so focuses on all these characters and more in a conventional style of this genre, but Coogler has much more in store ( much more)when Remmick (Jack O’Connell, terrific), who is fronting an Irish folk trio, comes knocking on the door of Club Juke wanting to get in with his friends but is turned away, even after trying to show they are in the musical spirit of things by an instant performance of “The Rocky Road To Dublin.” No luck, but it doesn’t take long to realize the “devil” is in the building and this group really are vampires who have lived for hundreds of years.
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