I imagine this movie was pitched as From Dusk Till Dawn meets Django Unchained, because that's exactly how it plays out. There is nothing original here and what good there is is spoiled by the need to pander to the average American idiot, re-explaining the plot points again and again with multiple flashbacks and sacrificing any kind of verisimilitude so that Michael B Jordan can look "cool."
Most annoying of all is there was a really good movie left on the cutting room floor. It's well made and has a couple of interesting ideas. If they removed all the stupid explanation, leaned into the music-magic a little more and made the big gun fight less ridiculous, it could have been great.
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