Sin City - jumped right in to my all time top ten movies

Rating: 10/10 (3 September 2006)

Sin City is a very dark, enigmatic, episodic, film about Basin City. It is a day-in-the-life type movie with no morals, no happy endings and almost no story line. You are irresistibly drawn to the anti-heroes Marv, Dwight and Hartigan, who meter out a violence that is extreme but not gratuitous - mainly due to the strip-cartoon feel of the film.
Sin City is shot mainly in B&W with colour used sparingly and more as a special effect. The use light and shadow starkly enhances the squalor of Basin City. The photography is stunning! The dialogue is clipped, gritty and original with strong reference to the strip cartoon genre; including the muscular and effective use of narration.
With a Pulp Fiction type of post modernism, this is remarkable piece of art that stands above all of what Hollywood produces today.