Blood, guns and fun

Rating: 10/10 (20 July 2005)

A black-and-white, ultra-violent film based on a comic book, directed by Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller (the creator of the comics) and a special guest director Quentin Tarantino. It has to be cool! And it is. I was so happy after seeing "Sin City" that I decided to make a list of things I liked about this film: 1. The dialog is brilliant; 2. Although the characters say clever things almost without a break (and during the breaks we can enjoy their interesting thoughts), the action never stops either. There is always a good chance for a bullet, a car or a maniac to appear; 3. The laws of physics are the same as in comics - the cars take curves and make jumps wickedly; 4. Blood fountains appear to the places where used to be a leg or an arm - just like in "Kill Bill"; 5. Like in "Schindler's List", some things are in colour: the red dress of a woman in the opening scene, the yellow face of Yellow Bastard etc; 6. Some characters never talk but they have other good qualities as shooting arrows or throwing swastika blades to kill people, or cannibalism; 7. The characters are shot, their arms and legs are ripped off, they are ran over by car, punched with hard fists... but they stay alive and fight back for a long time before dying; 8. All the bad guys get punished. Hard; 9. There is always night in Sin City; 10. It's hard to find a character in the film who is normal; 11. Elijah Wood plays a quiet boy who has long nails and cool sunglasses and who eats people. Slightly different from Frodo of "The Lord of the Rings"... 12. Michael Clarke Duncan plays a cop who tries to waste the prostitutes; 13. The prostitutes are pretty. They also use wicked weapons to protect themselves against the cops who try to waste them... 14. Josh Hartnett from the "masterpieces" "Pearl Harbour" and "40 Days and 40 Nights" plays in this film. And this time he's a bad guy; 15. Tarantino directed a scene where a man with his throat cut talks... There are many more good things about this film. Rodriguez has given us "Desperado" and "From Dusk Till Dawn", Tarantino "Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction". "Sin City" is a new gift from them, Frank Miller and a punch of great actors. We should thank them all...