Visually stunning , morally bankrupt

Rating: 5/10 (11 March 2007)

The most amusing review of this movie i saw for Sin City described it as a masterpiece but warned viewers of excessive nudity. I think the reviewer was being serious though i suspect he must have been about 15 years old and i think that's probably the demographic that this movie is aimed at. Looking at the breakdown of voters on IMDb, the highest rating came from males under 18, the lowest from females over 45. There's no doubt that the visual style of the movie is brilliantly done. I just have a bit of a problem with Bruce Willis saving an 11 year old girl's virginity from a paedophile only to have him come back and finding her after 8 years during which she's been writing to him because she loves him. So its supposed to be OK now because she's 19? And wasn't he supposedly approaching 60 at the time he saved her? Ewhh...tacky. Yeah i know its meant to be a comic. So that means anything goes right? We can express all those subconscious desires we normally keep locked up in a closet somewhere. All the women are hookers and the good guys speak in dry one liners while performing various amputations on the bad guys. In my opinion some things are best left in the closet.