It's meaningless, Marge! Don't even attempt to find meaning in it!

Rating: 2/10 (11 July 2005)

The words of Homer Simpson sum up my feelings for Sin City, the new grossly overrated film from grossly overrated director Robert Rodriguez.
I haven't read the graphic novels by Frank Miller, so I can't tell whether the film stays true to the original or not. What I do can tell you is that the movie sucks.
The visual style is compelling, but after being awestruck for the first five minutes, you start to concentrate on the content of the movie, and now is when disappointment strikes.
You feel absolutely NOTHING for the characters, who are no more than caricatures, and NOT in a good way. Why should I care if a character makes it or not when I have no feelings for him or her? It's not that the characters are "bad" or "too violent" or "despicable"; it's just that I don't care for them.
This movie takes itself waaaay to seriously, which is a huge mistake, considering the shoddy acting, poor directing and "flaccid, sloppy writing", to quote Robert McKee i "Adaptation".
The extensive use of voice over gets pretty old after a while, and good old Robert McKee says it best when he says: "Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character." A studio executive once told me how he knew a movie was bad if he looked at his watch at any time during the screening. I could not stop looking at my watch while watching Sin City. I longed for the end credits to roll.
This movie might have been good as a short or a music video, considering it's visual style, but it's just not good enough to cut it as a feature film.