Brilliantly done.

Rating: 10/10 (16 July 2005)

Sin City is a movie that manages to awe everyone in the room. The way that they did it in black and white with small touches of color is very artistic. Visually, the movie, with digital animation in black and white shows that Frank Miller the original creator of the Sin City comics/Graphic Novels is a pure genius. What these people did with a movie, this man did with ink and paper. It has been said that the graphic novels of Sin City were the story boards for the actual movie. Every camera angle/shot in the movie is good, and done in a very artistically done way. Judging by the movie has been done you don't know who to give more credit to, the director, Robert Rodriguez who is a genius in his own respect, or to the co-director/ graphic novel writer, Frank Miller who I have already stated is a genius.
(Spoilers) The story lines in this movie also make me think that Frank Miller is a genius. He has the story line of Marv, a tough man that has had his one true love killed while he slept right next to her. Marv seeks the men that killed her, and had her ordered killed. The second Story line involves a man named Hartigan who protects a young 11 year old that is going to be raped by a pedophile who just so happens to be the son of the governor that has very high power. That being and with a corrupt police department he can do just about anything that he wishes. In that Hartigan goes to jail falsely for eight years, and when he gets out he searches out the now 19 year old girl to protect her from that very same man that attempted raping her eight years ago. A third story line appears with a man named Dwight who has affairs with a woman, finds out that she has a man around that beats her. Dwight attempts killing the woman beater who is a good cop gone bad, and then the rest of his story is covering up for the murder. (End Spoilers)
The movies violence is not always in good taste but it is very amazingly well done. The violence begins five minutes in and doesn't let up for the entire movie. There are things like Gun Shots, dismemberment's of the body, decapitations which I suppose would fall under the previous category, there is also a very large amount of explosions that make the film even more violent. The nudity which has been said to be very bad, is actually rather mild. The nudity usually takes place in a dark area and is barely visible. This is not to say that you should let a child view these scenes, much less the movie.
The All star cast is a reason to see it alone. Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Benitio Del Toro, Elijah Wood, Clive Owen, Brittany Murphy, Michael Madsen, Josh Hartnett, Jaime King, and Nick Stahl all deliver amazing performances in this AMAZING movie.