Jacques Audiard's western drama has an attractive set of stellar cast oozing good performances. The plot surrounds the Sisters brothers; pair of bounty hunters on the trail of Hermann Kermit Warm (Riz Ahmed), a prospector with special chemical formula to extract gold out of river beds.
The motion picture has a solid theme about civilization. You could see it being reflected through the protagonist Eli Sisters (John C. Reilly), subplot protagonist John Morris (Jake Gyllenhaal) and even the prospector himself. Leaning towards becoming cultured and civilized men via scenes like using toothbrush, expressing love and articulating sentences are nice. The only character who's against this theme is Charlie Sisters (Joaquin Phoenix). Although he provides a stark contrast, since the argument is lopsided 3 to 1, the countertheme lacked weight, thus leaving the narrative tensionless and choices made by the characters obvious.
The Sisters Brothers could have definitely been a better film with a different director or even writers helming it. The storytelling style / flare is dull and mundane overall. Regular camera angles, boring characters, lifeless shootouts, grey dialogues, uneven subplot and unfinished CGI drags the quality down undeniably.