August 7, 2025 • 13 mins
We review Ryan Coogler's vampire film "Sinners" starring Michael B. Jordan as twins, discussing how it attempts to blend social commentary with horror but struggles with pacing and storytelling issues.
• Michael B. Jordan plays twin brothers whose differences aren't distinct enough, creating confusion
• The film spends 75% of its runtime on character development before introducing vampires
• Beautiful cinematography and music are standout elements despite narrative problems
• Vampire rules like needing invitation to enter homes create some genuinely funny moments
• The film attempts to draw parallels between vampire stories and historical discrimination
• Final act delivers action but feels disconnected from the character-focused first two acts
• Mixed ratings from the hosts, ranging from 2 to 3.5 out of 5 stars
If you enjoyed this video, please like, share and subscribe, and comment below with your thoughts on "Sinners."
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Hey everyone and welcome to another episode of
Movies Worth Seeing.
On today's episode, we're goingto be talking about Sinners,
starring Michael B Jordan anddirected by my favorite favorite
director because he was sogreat in all the other shitty
movies he made Ryan Coogler, whodirected Black Panther and
(00:28):
Creed.
So, with such a fantasticfilmography, what could go wrong
?
Addy and Martin are joining usfor today's episode, and
Martin's fallen asleep, prettymuch like I was during this
movie.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I liked the movie.
I liked the movie.
I liked the movie.
Why?
Why not that?
There's just a one-off movie,one story, not part of a
franchise, not a prequel, not asequel.
It's just a simple one-offmovie.
You go in, you get a beginning,middle, climax, end, and
there's no sequel.
It's not an an original story,let's be clear.
(01:05):
It's Dust Till Dawn 2.0, whichis then derived from Vamp.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
It's not even from Dust Till Dawn 2.0.
It's from Dust Till Dawn iffucking Steve Soderbergh
directed Dust Till Dawn and tookall the fun, joyful moments out
of it.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Are we going into spoilers?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, we could go into spoilers.
Fuck this movie.
I don't care if we spoil it.
Did you love the, thedifference in character between
the two characters that michaelb jordan was playing?
Did you love how completelydifferent they were?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
all right, so clearly there's a tone of sarcasm here
I've heard the opposite beforecoming into it, that like, uh,
people were like in their ownindividual anecdotes, were
saying that it was believableenough that he was portraying
two separate brothers and stuffit was confusing it did take me
a bit.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
It did take me a bit too.
Two Michael.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
B Jordans.
Look, there were slydifferences, but a lot of time I
was really trying to piecetogether.
It's like wait, wait, smoke.
A lot of time I was reallytrying to piece together.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
It's like wait, which of them brought it?
Wait smoke or is it stack.
Smoke or stack or is it?
Which one are we looking?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
at right now it's blue, michael B.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Jordan and red Michael B Jordan.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Well, yeah, but like Without the hats One's wearing a
red hat and the other one'swearing a blue hat.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Take the hats off and then you start.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
They should have put their names on the hats that
would have.
Yeah, you twins.
No, we couldn't but like, ifyou're gonna spend an hour, two
and a half, two hours of buildup, well, at least flesh out
their differences, at leastflesh out their relationship a
bit, so that then I will carewhen the vampires come out and
start killing people.
Despite all of that f***ingtime that was spent, I did not
care at all.
I did like the little.
All right, everyone, let's eatthe garlic and see who's still a
(02:57):
vampire and who's not.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
They're setting up defences.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
There's lots of great ideas in the movie, but nothing
reaches its full potential.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Now we out here playing games, telling ghost
stories, in place of doing whatwe ought to do being kind to one
another.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
But then you're watching the movie and you're
just like can something happen?
Can we get to the vampires?
I know this movie has vampires,so just get to the vampires,
it's what's marketed to us.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
It's just like a sort of social commentary movie that
the last half hour happened tobe about, like vampire uprising
and invasion, and I don't thinkit really melded all that well
that they were building up allthis like history of
discrimination and like thegangs and then the being
veterans.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
But that is Dusk Till Dawn, that is from Dusk Till
Dawn.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
You cannot deny it.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
The build-up for the first 75% of the film has
nothing to do with the vampiresNothing.
Suddenly there's vampires andthen that is like two complete,
separate movies.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, I did remember on our drive back, that I was
commenting loudly about how thiscould work if this was like two
different movies, where, yeah,one movie could just be about
two struggling twin brotherstrying to rise, just trying to
go above the fray in thestruggles in a white, in a white
man's world and then thevampire movie could be a
different movie this movie triesto add like emotional depth and
(04:28):
weight, with like oh, there'ssymbolism and social commentary,
but it's wasted because themovie's so damn boring as well
as the brotherly bond.
I thought you were brotherlybond is nothing.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
The brotherly bond in from dust till dawn.
You see them bicker and argueand shit, like it builds towards
something to where, at the end,you actually felt something
when they had to kill each other, when one of the brothers got
infected, whereas in this I waslike I knew one of them gets
infected number one because thestupid trailer spoiled it, but
(05:02):
number two I'm like I don't care, I don't know anything about
them.
That's different.
My daddy was an evil man and hepassed that evil down to us.
And the worst part is the movieis trying to be like this is a
big deal.
Look at the emotions on michaelb jordan, look at all the inner
conflict in his face and I waslike just get on with the movie
(05:27):
and like they're just arguinglike oh, he's not your brother
anymore for like 10, 15 minutesand I'm like just get to the
point, get to the action.
Are there any aspects that wedid actually like?
I really enjoyed watching?
There were certain moments thatwere fun to watch for me, like
seeing the vampires try and finda way to get invited was kind
(05:54):
of funny.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
It's very cordial and very polite.
You have to be invited to enter, so you listening to this, just
step aside and let me on in now.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Why you need him to do that, you being strong enough
to push passes.
Well, I wouldn't be too politenow would it miss annie?
And then seeing the characterslike deconstructed and be like,
wait a sec, like you never werethis polite before, why the f**k
is getting an invite soimportant all of a sudden.
(06:26):
So just seeing them have thosemoments of like suspicion was
kind of fun.
It's also just funny like it isfunny just watching, genuinely
vampires that are so powerfuland evil, but they're like come
on, invite me in the house, letme in, and I like.
(06:46):
I like that part with, like,the three white people going up
to the bar and they're like,they're white, though no, you
can't come in.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Okay.
So overall I really liked themovie, but there's a couple of
moments that really took me out.
That just wasn't justified.
Okay so when Smoke or Stackkilled.
Annie, and then Michael BJordan that was already a
vampire was like let's get outof here, let's get out of here,
we're gonna go, yeah.
And they came back to the nextdoor.
(07:17):
It's like, why did they leave?
Why Everybody stopped to watchher die?
Isn't this like the perfecttime to just go in and kill
everybody?
Like, honestly, they've swarmedthe place.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Why not not dog pile?
Why not dog pile on them?
They have them.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
They were all like, let's get out of here and I was
like no, but there was onlythree or four left and the whole
army of vampires it made.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
It made no sense.
Look again, I love the movie.
There's so many good thingsabout the.
Music is awesome.
The vibe of it when they'redancing, it was awesome.
Cinematography wise, lightingwise.
There's so many good thingsfrom a story wise.
(08:08):
I gotta admit vampire movieshave always been terrible at
justifying things, always hasplot holes.
From a cinematographyperspective, what's your take?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
It is the first IMAX production with a female
cinematographer, and so thiswill open the door for more
talented female cinematographersout there.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Unfortunately, it's just all this passion and the
goodwill going into it with themeritocracy it's just sort of
undone by the clumsy sort ofstory execution so you can have
an amazing story, but you canhave a fantastic cinematography,
but if the story itself justthen it's just the great
cinematography and takes thecredits away from what it
(08:57):
actually is all money come withblood.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Baby, listen here, this ain't no house party.
Y'all ready to drink, y'allready to sweat till y'all stack.
You want some that?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
from a one to five stars.
What would you give it?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
two bro.
I think sinners has a lot ofpotential, but there's just
nothing fun that makes me wantto ever see this movie again,
except for maybe the last 15minutes when the vampires and
the humans are actually fighting, which is what brought me to
(09:35):
the dance.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I would say oh, three and a half, yeah, seven out of
ten, three and a half, three anda half out of ten, five, idiot,
like I acknowledge that this isnot a movie made for our people
.
God, don't put that in Keep itin I can acknowledge that this
is a movie that's not made forour people.
It's speaking to a history and aculture that we didn't grow up
(10:01):
with and live with.
I don't know, I'm like I don'tknow, I'm wholly ignorant to
soul music in saying that, uhlike, we discussed a whole lot
of build-up that amounts tonothing, like the good aspects.
That raises it a bit above themidway point for me are, in the
(10:25):
same way that we discussed howmoments and aspects of the story
are good, discreetly, but don'tgel together.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I would give this film three and a half out of
five stars as well.
One more thing we forgot totalk about this beautiful voice
from the kid, simon a soulfulkind of thing.
(10:56):
Yeah, no, yeah, genuinely good,yeah beautiful voice, uh,
beautiful, beautiful musicthroughout the whole film.
But when he finally performsand his music transcends time
and space and we travel throughthe time past, present and
future our, our current present.
(11:18):
The future was our currentpresent yeah, but then it
clicked and then we went throughlike different stages of
cultural development.
One thing I do not believe thatshould be credited to be proud
of.
Should I do it?
Twerking, twerking, culture,culture.
(11:42):
Why would you have twerking insuch a symbolic moment of the
film where music, the blues,transcends time and space to
travel throughout all aspects ofcultural development of a
(12:03):
certain culture and add twerkingto it?
It's like we added in a lowpoint.
You know what I mean.
But overall I thought the moviewas really good.
I was entertained and that'swhy I go to the cinema.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
And we hope that you've been entertained by
watching our review of Sinners.
If you enjoyed this video,please like, share and subscribe
, and comment below and let usknow what were your thoughts on
sinners.
Did you enjoy the slow burn?
Do you enjoy movies wherenothing happens?
If so, comment below and let usknow until next time.
(12:38):
That's us.
Take care, goodbye.
Hey everyone and welcome to another episode of
Movies Worth Seeing.
On today's episode, we're goingto be talking about Sinners,
starring Michael B Jordan anddirected by my favorite favorite
director because he was sogreat in all the other shitty
movies he made Ryan Coogler, whodirected Black Panther and
(00:28):
Creed.
So, with such a fantasticfilmography, what could go wrong
?
Addy and Martin are joining usfor today's episode, and
Martin's fallen asleep, prettymuch like I was during this
movie.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I liked the movie.
I liked the movie.
I liked the movie.
Why?
Why not that?
There's just a one-off movie,one story, not part of a
franchise, not a prequel, not asequel.
It's just a simple one-offmovie.
You go in, you get a beginning,middle, climax, end, and
there's no sequel.
It's not an an original story,let's be clear.
(01:05):
It's Dust Till Dawn 2.0, whichis then derived from Vamp.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
It's not even from Dust Till Dawn 2.0.
It's from Dust Till Dawn iffucking Steve Soderbergh
directed Dust Till Dawn and tookall the fun, joyful moments out
of it.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Are we going into spoilers?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, we could go into spoilers.
Fuck this movie.
I don't care if we spoil it.
Did you love the, thedifference in character between
the two characters that michaelb jordan was playing?
Did you love how completelydifferent they were?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
all right, so clearly there's a tone of sarcasm here
I've heard the opposite beforecoming into it, that like, uh,
people were like in their ownindividual anecdotes, were
saying that it was believableenough that he was portraying
two separate brothers and stuffit was confusing it did take me
a bit.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
It did take me a bit too.
Two Michael.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
B Jordans.
Look, there were slydifferences, but a lot of time I
was really trying to piecetogether.
It's like wait, wait, smoke.
A lot of time I was reallytrying to piece together.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
It's like wait, which of them brought it?
Wait smoke or is it stack.
Smoke or stack or is it?
Which one are we looking?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
at right now it's blue, michael B.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Jordan and red Michael B Jordan.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Well, yeah, but like Without the hats One's wearing a
red hat and the other one'swearing a blue hat.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Take the hats off and then you start.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
They should have put their names on the hats that
would have.
Yeah, you twins.
No, we couldn't but like, ifyou're gonna spend an hour, two
and a half, two hours of buildup, well, at least flesh out
their differences, at leastflesh out their relationship a
bit, so that then I will carewhen the vampires come out and
start killing people.
Despite all of that f***ingtime that was spent, I did not
care at all.
I did like the little.
All right, everyone, let's eatthe garlic and see who's still a
(02:57):
vampire and who's not.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
They're setting up defences.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
There's lots of great ideas in the movie, but nothing
reaches its full potential.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Now we out here playing games, telling ghost
stories, in place of doing whatwe ought to do being kind to one
another.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
But then you're watching the movie and you're
just like can something happen?
Can we get to the vampires?
I know this movie has vampires,so just get to the vampires,
it's what's marketed to us.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
It's just like a sort of social commentary movie that
the last half hour happened tobe about, like vampire uprising
and invasion, and I don't thinkit really melded all that well
that they were building up allthis like history of
discrimination and like thegangs and then the being
veterans.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
But that is Dusk Till Dawn, that is from Dusk Till
Dawn.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
You cannot deny it.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
The build-up for the first 75% of the film has
nothing to do with the vampiresNothing.
Suddenly there's vampires andthen that is like two complete,
separate movies.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, I did remember on our drive back, that I was
commenting loudly about how thiscould work if this was like two
different movies, where, yeah,one movie could just be about
two struggling twin brotherstrying to rise, just trying to
go above the fray in thestruggles in a white, in a white
man's world and then thevampire movie could be a
different movie this movie triesto add like emotional depth and
(04:28):
weight, with like oh, there'ssymbolism and social commentary,
but it's wasted because themovie's so damn boring as well
as the brotherly bond.
I thought you were brotherlybond is nothing.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
The brotherly bond in from dust till dawn.
You see them bicker and argueand shit, like it builds towards
something to where, at the end,you actually felt something
when they had to kill each other, when one of the brothers got
infected, whereas in this I waslike I knew one of them gets
infected number one because thestupid trailer spoiled it, but
(05:02):
number two I'm like I don't care, I don't know anything about
them.
That's different.
My daddy was an evil man and hepassed that evil down to us.
And the worst part is the movieis trying to be like this is a
big deal.
Look at the emotions on michaelb jordan, look at all the inner
conflict in his face and I waslike just get on with the movie
(05:27):
and like they're just arguinglike oh, he's not your brother
anymore for like 10, 15 minutesand I'm like just get to the
point, get to the action.
Are there any aspects that wedid actually like?
I really enjoyed watching?
There were certain moments thatwere fun to watch for me, like
seeing the vampires try and finda way to get invited was kind
(05:54):
of funny.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
It's very cordial and very polite.
You have to be invited to enter, so you listening to this, just
step aside and let me on in now.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Why you need him to do that, you being strong enough
to push passes.
Well, I wouldn't be too politenow would it miss annie?
And then seeing the characterslike deconstructed and be like,
wait a sec, like you never werethis polite before, why the f**k
is getting an invite soimportant all of a sudden.
(06:26):
So just seeing them have thosemoments of like suspicion was
kind of fun.
It's also just funny like it isfunny just watching, genuinely
vampires that are so powerfuland evil, but they're like come
on, invite me in the house, letme in, and I like.
(06:46):
I like that part with, like,the three white people going up
to the bar and they're like,they're white, though no, you
can't come in.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Okay.
So overall I really liked themovie, but there's a couple of
moments that really took me out.
That just wasn't justified.
Okay so when Smoke or Stackkilled.
Annie, and then Michael BJordan that was already a
vampire was like let's get outof here, let's get out of here,
we're gonna go, yeah.
And they came back to the nextdoor.
(07:17):
It's like, why did they leave?
Why Everybody stopped to watchher die?
Isn't this like the perfecttime to just go in and kill
everybody?
Like, honestly, they've swarmedthe place.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Why not not dog pile?
Why not dog pile on them?
They have them.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
They were all like, let's get out of here and I was
like no, but there was onlythree or four left and the whole
army of vampires it made.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
It made no sense.
Look again, I love the movie.
There's so many good thingsabout the.
Music is awesome.
The vibe of it when they'redancing, it was awesome.
Cinematography wise, lightingwise.
There's so many good thingsfrom a story wise.
(08:08):
I gotta admit vampire movieshave always been terrible at
justifying things, always hasplot holes.
From a cinematographyperspective, what's your take?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
It is the first IMAX production with a female
cinematographer, and so thiswill open the door for more
talented female cinematographersout there.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Unfortunately, it's just all this passion and the
goodwill going into it with themeritocracy it's just sort of
undone by the clumsy sort ofstory execution so you can have
an amazing story, but you canhave a fantastic cinematography,
but if the story itself justthen it's just the great
cinematography and takes thecredits away from what it
(08:57):
actually is all money come withblood.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Baby, listen here, this ain't no house party.
Y'all ready to drink, y'allready to sweat till y'all stack.
You want some that?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
from a one to five stars.
What would you give it?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
two bro.
I think sinners has a lot ofpotential, but there's just
nothing fun that makes me wantto ever see this movie again,
except for maybe the last 15minutes when the vampires and
the humans are actually fighting, which is what brought me to
(09:35):
the dance.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I would say oh, three and a half, yeah, seven out of
ten, three and a half, three anda half out of ten, five, idiot,
like I acknowledge that this isnot a movie made for our people
.
God, don't put that in Keep itin I can acknowledge that this
is a movie that's not made forour people.
It's speaking to a history and aculture that we didn't grow up
(10:01):
with and live with.
I don't know, I'm like I don'tknow, I'm wholly ignorant to
soul music in saying that, uhlike, we discussed a whole lot
of build-up that amounts tonothing, like the good aspects.
That raises it a bit above themidway point for me are, in the
(10:25):
same way that we discussed howmoments and aspects of the story
are good, discreetly, but don'tgel together.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I would give this film three and a half out of
five stars as well.
One more thing we forgot totalk about this beautiful voice
from the kid, simon a soulfulkind of thing.
(10:56):
Yeah, no, yeah, genuinely good,yeah beautiful voice, uh,
beautiful, beautiful musicthroughout the whole film.
But when he finally performsand his music transcends time
and space and we travel throughthe time past, present and
future our, our current present.
(11:18):
The future was our currentpresent yeah, but then it
clicked and then we went throughlike different stages of
cultural development.
One thing I do not believe thatshould be credited to be proud
of.
Should I do it?
Twerking, twerking, culture,culture.
(11:42):
Why would you have twerking insuch a symbolic moment of the
film where music, the blues,transcends time and space to
travel throughout all aspects ofcultural development of a
(12:03):
certain culture and add twerkingto it?
It's like we added in a lowpoint.
You know what I mean.
But overall I thought the moviewas really good.
I was entertained and that'swhy I go to the cinema.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
And we hope that you've been entertained by
watching our review of Sinners.
If you enjoyed this video,please like, share and subscribe
, and comment below and let usknow what were your thoughts on
sinners.
Did you enjoy the slow burn?
Do you enjoy movies wherenothing happens?
If so, comment below and let usknow until next time.
(12:38):
That's us.
Take care, goodbye.
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