Sean Owens

This movie was so hyped up I was excited to see it. I liked the cinematography and the way it captured the time period with its set design. A lot of care and effort went into this and kudos to the set design crew. For me it went off the rails with the plot, story line, and some at times weak character development. As for the plot and story lines, it seemed like the movie was trying to do a bit too much with juggling a mobster story, with a story about blues music, with a story about racism, with a story about vampires. A lot of interesting ideas to juggle and in trying to blend everything together it just got convoluted where the movie felt like it was just a few different genres awkwardly cobbled together. At times it got dry and a little boring. The movie had some interesting characters, the church preacher, the Chinese family that ran the local grocery store, the blues musicians... who were sort of rendered to the background. It would have been interesting to imagine a young Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil, or a back story of the Chinese family who found themselves in the deeply segregated South of the 1920s. The actor who played the minister was amazing but probably gets the least screen time of all. My chagrin is not specifically with Sinners - there have been a series of movies with incredibly good reviews that have just been awful (Oppenheimer, I saw the TV Glow are two that immediately come to mind) that I've been fooled into attending - fool me once shame on IMDB ratings fool me twice shame on me!

I would have given this movie a 2 star but had to make it a 1 to balance out so many of the fake 5 star reviews. The good - the movie is true to its 19th century timestamp from the wardrobes to the settings. The bad The movie feels at time like it's being shot in a cave. Literally one of the darkest movies I've seen. The characters are shallow and not likeable. The villain is not particularly scary. The plot has a lot of holes - since when to you have to cross an ocean to get from Transylvania to Germany? How does a cold and calculating miser just transform into a slathering fool apropos of nothing. The end was just a random bunch of scenes jumbled together into one of the dumbest endings I've ever seen. I hate when movies get fake reviews and hype and you get suckered into seeing a real bad movie (ie Gladiator 2)

Very disappointing. The story was really boring with little character development.

This movie reminded of that rotten shark dish that is popular in Iceland. You will have some people that will appreciate it as fine, eclectic cuisine; but most people will be like c'mon, your eating a rotten shark that is just disgusting. This movie is like that - you'll have a handful of people who will appreciate this movie as 'art' with some deep story line, but most will say c'mon this movie makes absolutely no sense, is not scary, and is just really a boring waste of 1 hour and 24 minutes.

A very strange movie which is not necessarily a bad thing but very boring plot with bad music and weak character development. Crazy how this movie seemed to get positive reviews.