the sisters party of the year switch review

In fact, it is Charlie who is the person with no appreciation of the modern world. But Eli is aspirational: he is the brother who buys one of the new-fangled toothbrushes for making one’s breath fresher and teeth longer-lasting and notes that Morris has invested in one as well. The harshness of their lives together on the trail is grippingly recorded, and there is a horrible moment when Eli is asleep, snoring with his jaw unattractively slack, and a spider inches up his chest, onto his chin and agonisingly close to the abyss of his open mouth. Carol Kane has an endearing and funny cameo as their elderly mother. But their abusive family background has grimly taught Eli why Charlie gets to be top dog. Joaquin Phoenix’s Charlie himself is a sneery cynic and drinker, who tends to spend the first part of any day in the throes of a hangover, falling off his horse and throwing up. He also objects to Charlie’s harsh and insensitive language, and Reilly’s emotional woundedness almost makes you forget the irony, considering what he does for a living. He is always complaining and whingeing about the fact that he somehow gets paid less than Charlie, on the specious grounds that Charlie has been designated the “lead” killer. Reilly (who also produces) gives another warmly melancholy, hangdog performance as the beta-brother Eli - not so far in fact from his performance in the comedy Step Brothers, opposite Will Ferrell. Finally Eli and Charlie, like Butch and Sundance before them, suspect that there are some pretty persistent people on their own tails. The Sisters siblings do not in fact appreciate the exact reason for the Commodore’s interest in Warm, and Morris understands it before they do, leading the men into a terrible, fatal secret.

Their latest mission is to travel to San Francisco - a Babylonian centre of worldly pleasure which astonishes and excites these rather provincial men - in order to whack a certain individual called Hermann Kermit Warm, played by Riz Ahmed.īut tracking the victim down is not their responsibility as such the Commodore has assigned this to a prissy private detective, John Morris, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, who is always a few days’ ride ahead of the boys and irritates Charlie intensely with his pompous letters telling them what to do. They are in fact assassins, working for a shadowy person nicknamed the Commodore, played in cameo by Rutger Hauer.

The scene is 1850s Oregon and John C Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix play the quarrelling Sisters Brothers, Eli and Charlie Sisters, two rangy and disreputable guys liable to come riding into town up to no good.

The sisters party of the year switch review