Unbelievably boring

Rating: 3/10 (20 April 2012)

I first tried to watch Sin City about 2 years ago and ended up turning it off after about 15 minutes thinking what a piece of garbage. However, I generally trust IMDb ratings especially when the number of people who rated the movie are more than 100,000. So today I decided to give it another chance... this time I turned it off after 30 minutes, and this time I am sure that I will never watch it again. It is not the violence, which I don't really mind. I like Reservoir Dogs, or Kill Bill. I love Pulp Fiction. They are also violent movies, but they have human beings as their main characters. The characters are sometimes sadistic, unpleasant, evil, etc, but still human. Sin City on the other hand is about comic book characters, who have nothing human in them, except maybe for the bodies, and even the bodies can take countless bullets, hits to the head by sledge hammers, or be repeatedly hit by a car without showing any ill effects 10 minutes later. Well, I can also watch a fairy tale and completely suspend the disbelief if that is needed for the advancement of the story. But there is no story in the movie either. A fifth grader could've come up with a deeper plot, and a five year old experienced more complicated emotions than any of the "characters" in this movie. However, despite my general dislike for the movie, I tried to be objective in my ratings. It had quite good visuals, and that is why I give it a 3. But if you want to watch a movie that has something, beside a series of stunning pictures, stay away. And when I use the phrase movie has something, beside stunning pictures I do not mean deep meaning, real life problems, I mean it as an opposite of complete void, because Superman, or Die Hard are Shakesperean tragedies compared to this garbage.