One the best later comic book films

Rating: 8/10 (5 September 2005)

It's way better than Spiderman, X-Men, Batman (although Michael Keaton did a decent job), etc. comic-book or graphic novels - (Kill Bill was based on "The Bride" and Pulp Fiction was loosely based on "Battle Royale"). Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction are better films, but to me they seem based on chop-socky Asian or samurai (many of these are outstanding, much better than Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill).
One thing I like about Sin City is the European sense of timing - it takes its time developing a story - I wish it was longer. By far the most enjoyable story was Marv and Goldie, it was more personal than the other stories. Jaime King (Goldie/Wendy) and Mickey Rourke were so good and they connected, unlike Bruce Willis and Jessica Alba or Slive Owen and Rosario Dawson and Brittany Murphy. I really like the evil characters, like Bernicio Del Toro, Nick Stahl, Elijah Wood, Rutger Hauer, Powers Booth, and Michael Madsen.
Granted, the dialogue was kind of stilted - but hey, it's not Shakespeare, Tom Stoppard, Sam Shepherd, David Mamet, etc. But the dialogue echoes the film noir classics in the Thirties, Forties, and Fifties.
The set design and the whole look of this film was great - it rivals Berlin (Terry Gilliam), Metropolis (Fritz Lang silent), Battleship Potemkin and Aleksandr Nevsky (Eisenstein), The Godfather I and II (Scorsese), La Femme Nikita (Luc Besson), etc.