A beautiful work of art, a flawed film

Rating: 6/10 (5 January 2009)

Sin City? Well lets just say this movie had a lot going for it, beautiful cinematography, great effects, and A list of actors, and Quentin Tarantino as a guest director. What happens however is a jumbled mix of noir and an over the top style attitude that Japanese anime seems realistic.
First off the acting; what happened here, it's too over the top they tried to go hard boiled noir but it came out as something different. Not a single character had the subtly of classic noir actors like Robert Mitchum it's just a jumbled mess of wanna be laced dialogue that a fifth grader seems to have written.
Cheesy lines, one dimensional characters who are the perfect cardboard cutouts of clichÃ©d action stars. And the sad thing is the film is so highly praised, proof that our standard audiences aren't watching film for the art, the characters, any of that just action about as over the top as dodging bullets from the Matrix.
Guys with golden eyes, big guns, lots of no, no coherent plot in any of the tales, no development it's just a mess of a film. It's pretty to look at but everything else just goes way over. This isn't a movie that fits into the genre it's homaging or whatever it's just chock full of crap, on top of crap.
Throwing all the bad aside the film is watchable and enjoyable if you shut your brain down for a couple hours, forget that this is supposed to be a noir film and just enjoy it for what it is, a mindless but very pretty action flick.