Sinners
Black Bag, Warfare, Sinners… back to back to back bangers Hollywood has treated the ZEJ team with, and each, according to ZEJ, better than the last. While all three are extremely well done on a technical level: directing, writing, acting; Sinners is by far the most creative and original, and you have to give it the edge for that. It’s also a bit more entertaining, as the phenomenally captivating acting of Michael B Jordan and company keep you so enthralled every minute of this film that you’re really on edge when the horror aspects of the film begin to unfold. Another layer of that captivation is the Oscar-worthy original music created by the masterful Ludwig Göransson, which is deliciously intoxicating. Miles Caton makes his acting debut and performs much of Ludwig’s work in the film, and he completely exemplifies this quote from the film: ”There are legends of people with the gift of making music so true it conjure spirits from the past and the future.” The combination of hearing that quote in the movie and then hearing Miles Caton perform in the movie and having him completely deliver on it gave me chills and that was a singular cinematic experience.
-Z
My favorite of the year so far! The plot completely held my attention and the horror aspects all felt deserved, not campy, to me. Michael B. Jordan does such an impressive job of playing twins interacting on the screen, I had to remind myself at the end that he was just one actor when thinking about how they put the movie together. Beautiful cinematography. A wildly long mid-credits scene that really stuck the landing. There are a lot of unexpected layers to this vampire story!
-E
"You keep dancing with the devil... one day he's gonna follow you home." -Jedidiah
If I just had to look at a poster and watch a trailer to decide if I want to watch a movie, there is no chance that I would watch this film. Right when I saw the trailer I thought it looked corny, predictable, and kind of cheap. What we got was a cinematic and extremely unique story with some high level acting. At this point, this is for sure the best film I have seen this year. Michael B Jordan is absolutely electric as both Smoke and Stack, but the real surprise is MIles Caton making his acting debut. Along with great acting is the unique story. I will say, I don’t know if I loved the vampire aspect, but it definitely is what makes this movie have no comparisons. This is what I think is the kind of horror movie that anyone can get behind. You go for long periods of time setting up a world without focusing on scares, so much so that you forget that it is a horror movie at times. Overall, a great film that any cinema lover should see asap.
-J
