{"id":1180751,"date":"2026-02-15T00:03:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T00:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=561718"},"modified":"2026-02-15T00:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T00:03:22","slug":"the-one-big-disappointment-in-ryan-cooglers-fabulous-horror-movie-sinners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-one-big-disappointment-in-ryan-cooglers-fabulous-horror-movie-sinners\/","title":{"rendered":"The one big disappointment in Ryan Coogler\u2019s fabulous horror movie Sinners"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/the-one-big-disappointment-in-ryan-cooglers-fabulous-horror-movie-sinners.jpg\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-text-align-none\">Hands down, Ryan Coogler\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/horror\/556489\/sinners-review-ryan-coogler-vampire-black-panther\">1930s-set crime film\/historical thriller\/vampire horror-show <em>Sinners<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>is one of the best movies of 2025 so far. The <em>Black Panther <\/em>and <em>Fruitvale Station<\/em> director has made a project that\u2019s simultaneously audacious and personal, the kind of big-swing original story that cinephiles are always clamoring for around the edges of the endless franchise movies, reboots, prequels, sequels, and spinoffs that dominate American studio output. It\u2019s about what the American dream has looked like for Black citizens across the past century. It\u2019s about <a href=\"https:\/\/collider.com\/ryan-coogler-sinners-chadwick-boseman-black-panther-marvel\/\">Coogler\u2019s own family history<\/a> and his relatives\u2019 relationships with everything from bootlegging to early Black-owned businesses to blues. It\u2019s a great watch. It\u2019s also a pretty thrilling, gory horror movie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">And yet Coogler\u2019s wildest, most ambitious, most creative idea \u2014 one fascinating enough to be the plot of a movie all on its own \u2014 gets one <a href=\"https:\/\/joysauce.com\/the-incredible-long-take-that-defines-ryan-cooglers-sinners\/\">breathtaking, inventive sequence<\/a>, and then gets dropped from the movie entirely. There\u2019s a nagging question hanging&nbsp;over more than half of <em>Sinners<\/em>: What happened to the movie\u2019s biggest and best conceit, and why doesn\u2019t it play more of a role in the story?<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">[<strong>Ed. note:<\/strong> Broad spoilers ahead for <em>Sinners<\/em>, though this piece is more about what <em>doesn\u2019t<\/em> happen than what does.]&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div>\n<div><iframe title=\"Sinners | Official Trailer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bKGxHflevuk?rel=0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">A lot of <em>Sinners <\/em>rests on the shoulders of Michael B. Jordan as twin brothers Smoke and Stack, aka \u201cthe SmokeStack twins.\u201d They\u2019re a pair of sharp-dressing gangsters who left their Mississippi hometown for the criminal big leagues of Chicago, wound up working with Al Capone (a story they unfortunately don\u2019t tell, and only allude to), then returned home with a truck full of stolen booze and a satchel full of money, both of which go into their dream of opening their own juke joint: a business owned by and catering to the Black community. Part of their setup involves bringing in their cousin Sammie (R&amp;B\/gospel artist Miles Caton), a preacher\u2019s son and blues prodigy, to perform at their opening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Sammie, we\u2019re told in voice-over, is one of a rare strain of musicians who\u2019ve emerged over the course of what seems to be thousands of years and across every country and continent. These special talents make music so powerful that it connects them to spirits from the past and the future. And when Sammie finally plays at the club, with an original number called \u201cI Lied to You,\u201d we get to see what that means through one staggeringly emotional sequence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">African tribal dancers, an Afrofuturist soloist with an electric guitar, a ballet dancer, a record-scratching hip-hop DJ, twerking modern-era clubgoers, Chinese opera performers and more all appear one by one, dancing and playing among the crowd, performing alongside Sammie. And composer Ludwig G\u00f6ransson merges Sammie\u2019s blues song with hip-hop beats, a house-music line, African drumbeats and chants, and a range of modern instruments as the song sprawls out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div>\n<div><iframe title=\"Miles Caton - I Lied to You | Sinners (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aGJlfjRUb1s?rel=0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">It\u2019s a wild frenzy of a sequence, suitable for such a wild idea. Except that Sammie\u2019s ability simply never comes up again, for the rest of the movie. It isn\u2019t pertinent to the plot, and he doesn\u2019t appear to ever be aware of it or learn anything more about it. We get the amazing promise of that sequence, and then that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Sammie\u2019s power is in theory the hook for <em>Sinners<\/em>\u2019 vampire element: Irish vampire (and singer, and guitarist, and apparent music-lover) Remmick (Jack O\u2019Connell) enters the story because Sammie\u2019s performance of \u201cI Lied to You\u201d calls to him. He\u2019s familiar with power like Sammie\u2019s, and wants to claim Sammie and his talent so he can summon up the spirits of his own long-dead kin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">With an ability this rare, this powerful, and this inherently cinematic, it seems obvious that Sammie is going to have some central role to play as Remmick and his brood descend on the SmokeStack brothers\u2019 juke joint. Given the movie\u2019s understanding of vampires as malign spirits encased in dead human bodies, genre fans in particular might anticipate a finale where Sammie calls up the spirits of Remmick\u2019s victims to battle him, fighting a supernatural power with a supernatural power. Or it\u2019d be easy to visualize a sequence where Sammie does exactly what Remmick demands and summons his dead kin \u2014 who call Remmick back to the grave where he belongs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">There are any number of ways the power to bind together music from throughout history might play into the storyline we\u2019re given: as a way to distract and mesmerize Remmick and his followers until the sun comes up, or to force him to understand what a hellish creature he\u2019s become. We\u2019re even told at the beginning of the movie that this kind of uniting musical power helps settle spirits, in what seems like obvious foreshadowing about Sammie\u2019s need to understand the place and purpose of his music, and learn how to use it to put a troubled world at ease.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/the-one-big-disappointment-in-ryan-cooglers-fabulous-horror-movie-sinners-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Instead, the solution to Remmick\u2019s threat is a lot more mundane, accidental, and frankly less interesting. The climactic combat has some resonance with the rest of Coogler\u2019s themes in <em>Sinners<\/em>, given how it touches on Sammie\u2019s musical instrument of choice, where it came from, and what it means to him. It\u2019s true that there\u2019s an innate symbolism in his guitar being his salvation, and in it being destroyed in the process, and in his refusal to let go of it afterward, no matter how his preacher father prays over him and begs him to drop it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">But having the guitar <em>accidentally <\/em>save him takes a lot of the power out of Sammie\u2019s hands, and draws a lot of the intrigue out of his actual talent. A story that seems to be about the Smokestack twins\u2019 obvious personal and financial power \u2014&nbsp;their confidence and ease with violence, their elevated place in the community and its legends \u2014&nbsp;giving way to Sammie\u2019s softer and more creative power turns out to just be a story about the twins\u2019 dreams falling apart, with Sammie as one witness among many. That lack of resolution or even meaning for Sammie\u2019s fascinating power makes <em>Sinners <\/em>feel incomplete and even distracted by all the other themes, ideas, and subplots competing for attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>Sinners<\/em> even includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/movies\/560848\/sinners-mid-post-credits-scenes\">a lengthy mid-credits epilogue, set in 1992<\/a>, that feels like an obvious chance to bring the movie back around to where it began, with that voice-over explaining Sammie\u2019s connection to the musical continuum. And even that epilogue misses the chance to make his power meaningful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">[<strong>Ed. note:<\/strong> OK, real, significant spoilers ahead.]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/the-one-big-disappointment-in-ryan-cooglers-fabulous-horror-movie-sinners-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">In the mid-credits sequence, a much-aged Sammie (now played by blues legend Buddy Guy) is playing in a club, clearly nearing the end of a successful and celebrated career. After the show, he sits at the bar as Stack and his girlfriend, Mary (Hailee Steinfeld), stroll in to meet him, looking just as they did in 1932, apart from their garish \u201990s clothing. Stack treats Sammie kindly, like an old friend, and offers to vampirize him to preserve his fading life. When Sammie rejects that option, Stack asks Sammie to play some good old acoustic Delta blues for him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">We\u2019ve seen at this point what vampires in the <em>Sinners<\/em> setting are like \u2014\u00a0how cruel and voracious they are, how easily they lie, how easily they kill, how physically unstoppable they can be compared to fragile humans. There\u2019s no reason to believe vampire Stack and Mary are any different, apart from the fact that they don\u2019t casually kill the only other human present. (They may have gotten the bouncer, though \u2014 that\u2019s left unclear.) For a moment, it seems like Sammie, clearly older and wiser and having grown into himself and his talent, might bring back that old power, either to end the threat Stack and Mary arguably pose to the world, or just to summon up everything they once shared and have now lost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">It feels like such an obvious coda, especially given what Remmick expressly wanted and couldn\u2019t get: the chance to see his old friends and loved ones again through Sammie\u2019s power. And the setup seems like such an obvious excuse for a sequence as beautiful and heartfelt as that mid-film one-shot scene, except this time with Sammie consciously calling up his own old friends and loved ones for the only other people left who might remember them.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/the-one-big-disappointment-in-ryan-cooglers-fabulous-horror-movie-sinners-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">But no, Sammie just sings <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/0DFc5GuX8VG95HBbzebVby\">one verse of a blues song about a woman who doesn\u2019t care about him<\/a>, nothing magical happens, and Stack and Mary move along. It\u2019s a bittersweet ending, meant to communicate the importance of moving on to whatever comes after a life well lived. And it comes with some powerful commiseration between Sammie and Stack about the last time they saw each other, and why, in spite of everything terrible that happened that day, it was the best day of both of their lives. It isn\u2019t a bad ending at all, and it comes with thoughtful intentions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">But it still raises the question of why Coogler came up with such a beautiful, memorable idea and expressed it in such glorious style, only to abandon it halfway through the movie. Sammie\u2019s power isn\u2019t the only idea <em>Sinners <\/em>raises and doesn\u2019t have time to explore: The movie is packed with characters and incidents, with relationships and history and conflict both immediate and historical, both personal and institutional. There\u2019s so much going on in this film, as if Coogler was trying to ensure he didn\u2019t miss out on any chances to explore a setting and situation he loved, and to tap into so many aspects of his own family history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">But it still feels like a strange omission: a kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chekhov%27s_gun\">Chekhov\u2019s gun<\/a> that gets fired once, into the air, then never touched again. Here\u2019s hoping <em>Sinners <\/em>does well enough that Coogler can return to the film\u2019s most intriguing idea if he ever wants to and explore it in more depth. A concept with such infinite potential shouldn\u2019t be relegated to one finite scene, no matter how beautiful that scene actually is.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Sinners <em>is in theaters now.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/movies\/561718\/sinners-analysis-sammie-power-problem-ryan-coogler\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hands down, Ryan Coogler\u2019s 1930s-set crime film\/historical thriller\/vampire horror-show Sinners is one of the best movies of 2025 so far. The Black Panther and Fruitvale Station director has made a project that\u2019s simultaneously audacious and personal, the kind of big-swing original story that cinephiles are always clamoring for around the edges of the endless franchise movies, reboots, prequels, sequels, and spinoffs that dominate American studio output. It\u2019s about what the American dream has looked like for Black citizens across the past century. It\u2019s about Coogler\u2019s own family history and his relatives\u2019 relationships with everything from bootlegging to early Black-owned businesses to blues. It\u2019s a great watch. It\u2019s also a pretty thrilling, gory horror movie. 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