Film and Director way over-rated

Rating: 5/10 (20 May 2007)

Sin City is an extremely and unnecessarily violent adaptation of a comic. The film is basically three shorter films in sequence, with similar themes of men defending women in a world of predators.
The film was stunning and original visually and deserves credit for that, however, it does not even come close to deserving an 8 out of ten stars.
The film promotes the defense of women, but the defense of gorgeous women, in particular. In short, its as deep as a fourteen-year-olds male fantasies.
Its just predictable filler, with all of its creativity used to framing hideous scenes of violence and torture that would never pass an R-rating in a live action film.
Rodriguez is a great director of cinematography but an overrated filmmaker if you want your films to take you anywhere original or thought-provoking.