Is God Is

Simultaneously what I expected and yet I got a good deal more.

The trailer admittedly got me intrigued, I like a good revenge story even if it is the most worthless of causes but it does a lot more than you would really think. It follows twin sisters who are given a task by their dying mother, to kill their father who burned them as kids but how the movie progresses has not only a plethora of quirks which are welcome to differentiate it from other examples of the genre, but you get a very true aspect of revenge that isn't shoved in your face, the change it instills in a person. From pretty much scene one it is established that Racine is the more outgoing and confrontational type while Anaia is the more soft spoken reasonable one who upon hearing her mother's request is realistically kinda taken aback. They share so many synchronized traits yet are two fundamnetally different people and it makes for a compelling and sad story. I mean are they still highly justified in killing such a heinous evil creature in the guise of a man? Oh abso-fucking-lutely! Though we barely get much of him in this movie Sterling K. Brown who is such a damn good actor he can convey so much dread and uneasiness when he has even a snippet of a scene, and towards the end he runs a bit of a gambit of emotions that leave you off balance not really sure if he's on the level or not. Didn't fool me for a second but the performance is what counts. And Vivica A. Fox who was a real trooper working under so much prosthetics like Mallori Johnson still holds presence and the simple fact she is referred to as God by her kids lends a fair bit of religious overtones in the dialogue. So performances get solid grades across the board, and the production certainly follows suit. It's stylistic but not in an overbearing way more of a quirky offbeat way, with De Palma-esque multiple camera shots, narrated flashback sequences drenched in sepia tone like it's a damn noir, and the little fact that the twins are telepathic and we can read their conversations through subtitles. So it's a strange movie but all these qualities add to the uniqueness of it, you just can't name another movie like it and that's something I appreciate. Whether it works or not for you you can respect the filmmakers for doing something original in a somewhat conventional genre. I give it 3 stars, 7.5/10, and next Friday simply cannot get here any quicker even at lightspeed.