A microplating of dynamic visual style over a steaming heap of trash.

Rating: Null/10 (2 April 2005)

I was very disappointed. All form. No function. The stories were simple and juvenile with simplistic themes to match and almost no subtext. The acting was insincere and did little to sell the story or the setting. The audience laughed and even groaned at the horrible performances. The storytelling was ponderous and boring, catering to an overblown sense of itself, like a stupid pathetic loser strutting and boasting in an attempt to convince itself otherwise.
But I see this as illustration that being a comic fan is like being a book fan or a film fan. Comics are a medium, not a story style or a genre. There are wonderful stories in comics and terrible ones. And there are some stories that work in the comic medium that will not work in cinema. I think that the only thing Watchmen and Sin City have in common is that they are not suited to cinema.
Sin City might have worked on the page. I don't know. I didn't read the graphic novels. But on screen, this story was shallow and clumsy, suitable only for children or the equally unsophisticated... but with too much sex and violence to make it appropriate for them. It would seem that the appropriate demographic would be mildly retarded teen-aged boys.
After two hours of boredom broken only by eye rolls, the only thing I was curious about was why the idiots that populated Sin City didn't simply walk out of it. As the credits rolled, I was glad to be doing just that.