Badass heroes and stunning visuals make Sin City a blast!----8/10

Rating: 8/10 (6 April 2005)

A film i have been anticipating for over a year, Sin City is a Pulp Fiction- like story featuring three different plots, derived from the graphic novels by Frank Miller, who served as co-director. All the stories take place in Basin City, a town of hookers and criminals and even more criminal police and politicians. I had never even heard of the novels before i had heard of the movie. But after reading about it, it is definitely my kind of comic. And even more so, my kind of movie. The dialouge is smart and hilarious (although occasionally cheesy), the violence is gratuitous but in a good way, and the look of the movie is phenomenal. It is also one of the most exciting movies in years, establishing the characters quickly, and putting them in peril every other minute. You really have no idea of what could happen next. Something that adds to the thrills is that sometimes the characters live and sometimes they die, including the major ones.
Speaking of the characters, the enormous cast of A-list stars bring them convincingly to life. Mickey Rourke (who kicks a metric ton of ass as Marv), Bruce Willis and Clive Owen are excellent, and the film bursts at the scenes with hotties showing their acting chops among other assets (wink-wink) including Jessica Alba, Carla Gugino, Brittany Murphy, Jaime King, Rosario Dawson, and Alexis Bledel. This is the absolute best cast since Goodfellas. While some of them overact (Brittany Murphy) and some underact (Micheal Madsen), it doesn't take much away from the movie, especially since this is one of the best looking movies ever. The stark black and white and frequent splashes of vivid color make for some serious eye-candy, almost equaling that of Gugino's and King's gorgeous birthday suits. Plus, Jessica Alba dances on a pole. I mean come on.
Sin City is the first movie i have seen this year, because basically everything else looks like crap. But it is a refreshing reminder that there are filmmakers like Robert Rodriguez out there who make original and unpredictable movies that come out of nowhere to smack us in the face. Fantastic job guys.---8/10