I know films have gone down over the years, but we still shouldn't settle for trash

Rating: 4/10 (12 August 2005)

I know what you're thinking. Sin City, got to be a great movie. You've heard nothing but good things and the adds look stylish and cool.
Well, let me tell you, it's not the best there is. In fact you couldn't pay me to see it again. I 100% believe that the only reason why anyone is saying this is good is because they've seen some really bad new films, so this actually looks like the holy grail to them. Well, just because you got stuck seeing films like Cabin Fever and Diary of A Mad Black Women, doesn't mean you should praise a film for being slightly less painful.
Where to start, well this is a film of about three or four short stories. The first flaw is that each of the short stories doesn't really have a main plot. Each story starts out with a simple plot, but then half way threw it does a 180 and goes in a completely different direction. The film is really all over the place and can't make up it's mind where it wants to go. One story starts with a cat and mouse game between the hero and bad guy, then suddenly the bad guy is dead and the story is still going for some unknown reason, then the bad guy starts coming back from the dead, then that is all forgot about and a mob war suddenly brakes out over a head. No direction what so ever.
A few of the stories start to travel into Kill Bill territory. I.E. No plot, just senseless kill after senseless kill until you lose count. Now, some people liked Kill Bill because of this, but personally this annoys me. Senseless deaths start to put you to sleep if they become to constant and the film as a whole starts to turn into a broken record.
And I know this is based off of a comic, but did it have to be so much like a cartoon? It's so campy in this cartoon aspect that I thought it was meant to be a joke, but there's no actual joke in it. The guy is tossing cops like he's Superman but there's nothing to really redeem the scene by making this stupidity look funny. Now, not every film should be funny of course, but when a film becomes as campy as this one does it's kind of a given.
And to top all this off there is just nothing really enjoyable in this film. It's not an action because you need fight scenes to pull that off and this is nothing but death and bad plot points. It's not a drama because it's to cheesy for it. It's not a comedy because there is nothing really funny about it, and it ain't no horror. There is nothing here to actually enjoy, unless you like horrid and pointless love subplots that go no where. Hollywood sure has come to believe that we love rubbish like that.
4 out of 10. Like the characters of the film tell you to stay out of Sin City.