Rough 'N Tough

Rating: 6/10 (28 March 2006)

Sin City may possibly be every man's dream; guns, car-chases and women. Robert Rodriguez' latest movie is a treat for the eye, it looks stunning and the features are the movie's best part. Loaded with famous faces, the story mainly switches between Mickey Rourke's brutal "manimal" Marv, Bruce Willis' ass-kicking ex-cop Hartigan and Clive Owen's confident Dwight. Three macho men who makes their way threw (Ba)Sin City, each with different stories to tell.
Marv, a badass and chief among the underground-residents, has started his hunting season. He's on the look after the guy who killed his true love, the whore Goldie. Newly pensioned cop Hartigan, a man with a machine heart, who's protecting a young girl, Nancy, from the city's worst criminals. And Dwight, Shelley's secret lover, who's spending the nights protecting Gail and her "Old Town Girls" from the violent Jackie Boy.
Sin City is brutally entertaining, and it's packed with memorable scenes and quotes. Every piece of the movie's drenched in merciless and stylish cartoon-features - and every single character is either so stylish, so beautiful or so ugly that you simply can't go anywhere but to Sin City to find them. The action-scenes are stunning, and the stories are brilliantly put together (as originally they're three different novels), switching between Sin City's darkest alleys in a cool and hard-knocking tempo. And the movie's got a edgy noir feeling to it, shot in black & white elegance with only some colors revealed you can't avoid being amazed by the movie's looks. There are a couple of blue eyes, red Converse shoes, a yellow bastard, some red blood spoiled - and this keeps it even more interesting. Sin City is a killer-movie, though many will probably find it more silly than intelligent, and yeah - Sin City is nothing more than a cartoon-based rock & roll movie.