The Sisters Brothers is directed and co-written by Jacques Audiard, his first English-language work. The film stars John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix as the notorious assassin brothers Eli and Charlie Sisters and the story follows the duo as they chase down two men that's played by Jake Gyllenhaal and Riz Ahmed who have banded together to search for gold. Incredible acting throughout the film, all four of them were terrific. John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix were best though, their chemistry were great.

The story starts off simple but evolves into so much more, the script is great, with well written characters and a plot that keeps you interested. There's a lot of towns, cities and locations the characters visit and each is unique and non like the other, great production design. The story isn't the film's strong point though, it's the acting and cinematography as it's visually stunning, each scene satisfies your eyes... With great camera work, lightning, sets and overall authentic. It's some of the best cinematography I have seen, I believe. Benoît Debie did a phenomenal job, one that will hopefully give him many acclaim and maybe awards in the future. The costume department did a magnificent job at creating clothes that are both authentic and also recognizable as you can see who the character is by their clothes, that's a nice and important detail.

Alexandre Desplat's musical score is both powerful and mesmerizing, a soundtrack fitting perfectly with its time period. The sound mixing and editing is also top notch, everything sounds real.

Too bad that this was a box office bomb, but I can understand why. The pacing is quite slow and it is more about character development than action. The few gunfights that exists in the movie is quick and realistic, and brutal. The Sisters Brothers is a must watch if you're a fan of the western genre, as it's one hell of a good western and a beautiful film.

Despite the slow start, The Sisters Brothers is a unique, unpredictable and funny western. Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly give incredible performances and are a surprisingly great double act. Riz Ahmed and Jake Gyllenhaal are also great. Jacques Audiard's direction is great and it's beautifully filmed. The music by Alexandre Desplat is really good. It also has genuinely thrilling gunfights.

Unusual European western with top notch American casting, developed with realistic setting, which expose common folks with their foibles, handicaps and dreams, often left behind they suffering past, once I'd heard an interview of Clint Eastwood about the standard American westerns, he told something like that "I don't know where (the producers, writers and actors) they got the idea of those stereotyped well-dressed women with clean clothes, red lipsticks on their lips, quick draws men wearing fancy outfits riding those thoroughbred horses richly customized and so on", Eastwood was right it's a pure fantasy.

The Brothers Sisters has come to demystified this misconception, the slow Eli Sisters (John C. Reilly) is peaceful, methodic, always keeping a red scarf gave for a teacher in the past, every single night before sleeping he smell it quite earnestly, Charlie (Joaquin Phoenix) the last-born is clever and wicked, they work as hired gun to a powerful Commodore (Rutger Hauer), thereafter the last assignment the odd Charles says that henceforward their Boss suggest he as the duo's leader, therefore Eli share ought be reduced for the next job, the sluggish Eli complains to Charlie was fostered to a leadership he should be got a raise instead to decrease your share.

The next task will pressure a man called Hermann (Riz Ahmed) to yield a secret recipe with the aid of John Morris (Jake Gyllenhaal), unluckily arriving in the rendezvous with John Morris didn't show up, somehow made a deal with the prey Hermann, breaking the previous arrangement, thru a research at Frisco the crafty Charlie discovers the hideout of them, prospecting gold, swiftly both starting a searching for both in mining area at nortwest.

Along the long journey we'll learning all about them, the bleak past of Charlie, however the picture focuses more deeply in the colorful Eli displaying minor details of his life, the red scarf, the first tooth brushing, his astonishment when he saw the toilet at Frisco, the spider sequence, weird when he talking with his sick horse apologizing until his sudden death, trying figure out fancy words spoken by Charlie, at brothel when invites a woman to deliver his own red scarf like it was his first girlfriend and finally arriving back home resting peaceful at your single bed while the wind blows at curtain, pure poetry about an ordinary life, what wonderful performance gave by the finest actor John C. Reilly!!!



Thanks for reading. Resume: First watch: 2021 / How many: 1 / Source: Blu-Ray / Rating: 9