Just "good" but nothing is special.

Rating: 6/10 (12 April 2005)

Last week, I went to see Sin City and I really can't say that I either hated or liked the movie. I just thought the movie was just "good". But nothing is special going on around here though. The color visual effects were great for a difference in a black and white film. And the reason that I was not very impressed with the film was because the camera techniques were not that good. It was done so much same as other films out there today. I felt Robert Rodriguez didn't do anything special with camera techniques such as how Paul T. Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese (in some way), Alfonso Cuaron and whoever is a truly master in film-making. So this is why I said there was nothing really special about Sin City except for that color visual effects. Sometimes I just got myself thinking about this film...boy... it got similar style as From Dusk Til Dawn and Kill Bill. I respect that it's their own style but sometimes I felt that there is nothing else is new.