Great looking and enjoyable, but nothing special.

Rating: 6/10 (31 March 2007)

I must admit I went into the film with very high expectations, and having seen it's average rating on this site I thought it was gonna be great. Wrong! The film no doubt looks fantastic but that was it, the dialogue was awful, mainly just shouting and snarling, and probably lifted directly from the comics. Also the director's insistence on putting most of the fighting in slow-mo just to re-emphasise the effects and show us again and again tiny beads of blood spattering, frustrated me.
I appreciate that this is based on Miller's graphic novel and this could explain it's over-emphasis on its looks. However, Sin City is also a beautiful looking film, where it differs is having a better story, director, dialogue and actors.
No chance is this film worthy of its current 8+ rating, it is very entertaining though and I'd go with a 6.