While admittedly not my personal preference, this is definitely a knock out

Rating: 7/10 (13 November 2007)

Visually stunning film adaptation of comic book scribe Frank Miller's "Sin City" stories (which he actually co-directed at the insistence of Robert Rodriguez). Rather than focus on one character's storyline, the film chronicles the antics, shenanigans and misadventures of a handful of different characters, all of them noirish anti-heroes or anti-heroines who are as jaded and decidedly anti-social as they come. Among the story lines, Bruce Willis's aging cop suffers for trying to save an innocent little girl from a senator's child molesting son (Nick Stahl, who becomes the Yellow Bastard), that little girl grows up to be a stripper played by Jessica Alba who's in love with Willis's long suffering cop even though he's old enough to be her grandpa (in real life more like old enough to be her father but that's beside the point), Clive Owen's mystery man Dwight gets in trouble for helping hookers kill a cop (Del Toro) who was roughing up on his girlfriend (Brittany Murphy) which breaks an alliance code between cops and hookers, Mickey Rourke seeks revenge on the stoic yet effeminate cannibal who helped kill his would be girlfriend, and Josh Hartnett plays a potentially misogynistic kill.
Shot in staggeringly beautiful black & white mimicking the comic book panels to an almost painfully accurate point and being just all around almost blatantly macho in its carefree more-the-merrier attitude, this film should please both Frank Miller fans and general action fans (though Alexis Bledel of "Gilmore Girls" is hopelessly miscast as one of the hookers).