oh Mickey, you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind

Rating: 8/10 (17 April 2005)

Having supposed to have seen this on opening night, stuff always came up, so here I am commenting on it a day after seeing it two weeks after it opened. Hey better late then never. This is without a doubt one of the most faithful adaptations of a comic book that I've ever seen is this one based on Frank Miller's niorish Sin City. I've always been a fan of both Bruce Willis and Mickey Rourke. Honestly, a fan of Willis by a bit more, so seeing him as Hartigan was great and I liked how he played him. But Rourke as the no nonsense hard-boiled Marv steals this movie. There's no doubt in my mind that it's Mickeys best performance in quite a while (almost enough to make me forget the horrid "1941" and "Heaven's Gate") Rourke just took the ball and ran with it. Now, yeah, this is a grisly violent film, but somehow, maybe due to how it was shot, one can at least detach one's self from the violence. Or at least that was the case for me. Is it over-rated by being in the Top 250? A reluctant yes, as this is far from a perfect film, (the middle story, while fun, pales in comparison with the other two, some silly dialog, etc...) but it's still a very enjoyable one. And if overly clichéd crap like "American Beauty", "The Matrix", and "Mystic River" can find a place in the top 250, then I won't begrudge this one if it stays there.
My Grade: A-
Eye Candy: Carla Gugino and Jamie King both have nude scenes and both are VERY stunning