Stylish, a comic book brought to life

Rating: 3/10 (2 July 2019)

In this stylized adaptation of the comic book, Sin City features an all-star cast in over-the-top roles glorifying sex and violence. It's all supposed to be tongue-in-cheek, so be prepared for that type of acting and filmmaking style when you rent it. It's a black and white film with filters and saturations designed to make it look like the drawn pages of a glossy comic book. Occasionally, there are bursts of color, like red blood, that once again bring up the comic book feeling. Visually, if you're a comic book aficionado, you'll probably be in love with this movie.
I'm not, so with the excessive violence and gratuitous sexual themes, I didn't fall in love with this movie. Obviously, in a comic book, it's a necessity for one of the female characters to be a stripper, but to me, most movies that feature strippers film the scenes in an exploitive manner. The movie is segmented into vignettes, and each vignette has an extraordinary amount of violence so that at the end of the movie, you're surprised anyone's left alive to inhabit the city. But if you want to see Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Mickey Rourke, Elijah Wood, Benicio del Toro, Michael Clarke Duncan, Clive Owen, Brittany Murphy, Michael Madsen, Josh Hartnett, Marley Shelton, and Alexis Bledel all together in a very stylized movie, you might like it. Watch the preview first, though, so you know what you're getting into.
DLM Warning: If you suffer from vertigo or dizzy spells, like my mom does, this movie will not be your friend. This is a stylized movie, and there are swirling camera movements and canted angles that it will make you sick. In other words, "Don't Look, Mom!"
Kiddy Warning: Obviously, you have control over your own children. However, due to adult violence and sexual content, I wouldn't let my kids watch it.