Sin City:The Docs Review

Rating: 10/10 (23 May 2006)

Probably the best film in ages a unique,brilliant,beautiful,and violent piece of art from Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez.Sin City contains some of the most beautiful visuals that are mostly black and white with highlighted colour creating an original,sleek,stylized look.The gigantic cast which includes Mickey Rourke,Bruce Willis,Clive Owen,Jessica Alba,Elijah Wood,Brittany Murphy and dozens of other big stars all give faithful and stunning performances particularly Mickey Rourke.Based on the graphic novel series Sin City is 3 separate stories of love,passion,betrayal,anger,violence,justice,and redemption.One follows a police officer who winds up being framed as a rapist when in fact he was the one who saved the little girl,another follows an ugly man who spends one night with a friendly hooker who is killed while sleeping,another is about a clandestine lady's man whose sole mission is to protect them from what they've already protected themselves from.Every story is a bloody tale of revenge with kills and death scenes more gruesome than Saw or The Devil's Rejects.The action is comic book style bar brawls,and contains plenty of gun action and hand to hand combat.The number one thing though is the violence is so brutal it becomes beautiful just by the way the film shows it.Generally you don't look at a man holding a severed head and say "gee that looks like a really good painting" but Sin City finds a way to make every frame look like gorgeous Gothic art.The dialog is 100% percent film noir and totally Quentin Tarantino like who by the way directs one brilliant scene in the film as a guest.Basically if you found Kill Bill,Domino,Pulp Fiction,From Dusk till Dawn,or Reservoir Dogs entertaining Sin City will please you guaranteed.