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"Sinners" is a period piece vampire-horror movie with Michael B Jordan taking on dual roles as twin brothers in a solid if unspectacular performance and the post war period setting is great. All the ingredients are there for a great vampire movie - Good supporting cast all giving good performances, great cinematography, some stunningly shot musical scenes (though it isn't a musical) and enough blood and gore to satisfy most horror fans.

Ultimately, I feel the idea was better than the execution and I have to mention the ending, which seems completely out of place with all that preceded and looks to have been included simply to show Michael B Jordan looking cool shooting a Tommy gun in slow motion.

"Sinners" falls a bit short of what it could have been; its basically "From Dusk till Dawn" with the Blues.

I watched this based on a review likening it to the far superior; "The KIlling." "Long Bright River" though, falls WAY short of the aforementioned, with paper thin characters and a pretty uninteresting and uninspiring main character. Whilst in "The Killing," Mireille Enos was a believable, interesting, flawed and three dimensional character, Amanda Seyfried's character Mickey, falls flat and is just too perfect to be taken seriously.

It wants to be dark and gritty, but the only thing dark is the lighting. It comes across as a melodrama cos-playing as a thriller and in truth, it was tough to finish the series.

Lastly - and without wanting to give anything away - I guessed who the killer would be long before it was revealed. There's really not much to recommend here.

I really wouldn't recommend Blink Twice, the acting was mostly fine and it was fun to see Channing Tatum in a darker role, but it was slow and meandering. Now, I don't mind a slow-burn thriller, but nothing much happens here for the first hour or so and then the whole thing is wrapped up in about 20 minutes.

None of the characters are relatable... barely even likeable (!) and I've seen similar movies, but just done a whole lot better - think Jordan Peele's "Get Out", but worse.

Its also about as subtle as a sledgehammer with its themes; men are bad, #Metoo. And yes, the ending is ridiculous.