Rourke and Willis in a same movie,we waited for so long!!

Rating: 7/10 (23 August 2006)

Too much to comment but to start: The man(Josh Harnett)a handsome psycho killer(some kind of Ted Bundy?),his victims:pretty women of course,but in this fantastic movie THE BEGINNING AND THE END GO LIKE A MERRY-GO-ROUND!; a good cop as heart-attacked Hartigan(Willis)rescues the wrong victim:a defend-less child called Nancy from the claws of an insane thug called Junior(Nick Stahl)son of a corrupted senator Mr. Roark(Powers Boothe),Hartigan shots several times the thief,but Bob (Madsen)his betrayer partner shots him at his back,the tramp is completed,Hartigan is unfairly accused of kidnapping and raping the poor child,the jail will be his reality for 8 mourned years,meanwhile Marv a former convict is framed too:a pretty whore called Goldie(Jamie King)was killed when she slept with the ugly guy,police men can't stop Marv,when he goes home we see the prettiest parole officer ever desired Lucille(Gugino,please bust me now!!),regrettably a sicked "nerd-killer" will be the beginning of the end of so gorgeous girl, outrunning from the unfair justice Marv discovers the corruption in the Church,Cardinal Roark(Hauer) is a part of the cancer,after the respective wiping,with the 'nerd-slayer' included,Marv is taken prisoner by pretty sluts in their own ghetto,the Goldie's twin sister Jamie blames Marv about the murder,but he could prove his innocence before all the "easy girls".
But Marv will follow his path until... the electric chair!perhaps the evil Jamie was too much blind to realize,and the city of sluts is menaced by Jackie Boy( a st upend Del Toro so laughable!!!)a shameless cop looking for new bounties!!,then Dwight(so good Clive Owen!!)a good friend of the chicks faces the mean visitors when a waitress called Shellie(Murphy)is stalked by the bad cops,after they are massacred,Miho(Aoki)leading the butcher's concert,Dwight goes to find help to the fiend ladies(no cops,no pimps) when mercenaries stops him after to forbear Jackie's jokes(the corpse of course)and carrying ripped bodies in an old heap,but when he sinks in a pit o maybe to be baptizes 'quick oiled tar' Miho rescues him,noticing him about the pretty slut called Gail(so sexy Rosario Dawson!)was abducted by a gruesome hulk called Manute(Clarke Duncan),the rescue goes so bloody,so funny to watch Jackie's faces taped and exploding before the slashing revenge;returning to our main hero,here i was so amazed:Hartigan was jailed 8 years,Nancy(Cordelia according to the sicked Junior Roark)always sent him letters never forgetting him,after his parole,Bob picks him up from the jail,forgiving the Bob's betrayal and looking for Nancy,her house was ransacked,and the worst idea because they sent him a teen's finger to the jail,Hartingan finds a clue to take him in a sordid night club,and Nancy(already an adult J. Alba) is a cow-girl dancing over the tables,Jackie and Marv in first file!!, when they cross their looks,she jumped through the tables,going away with the veteran former cop,but an awful shadow of the past now called yellow bastard(the same Junior)captures them,and hanging on the death Hartingan rescues Nancy again and killing the 'mutant'.
If i haven't given a 9 of notes,it's only for personal motives:Lucille (Carla Gugino i love you!!!What a slim fit body in a mini-trouser!!)died so early,they never exploding her beautifulness in more scenes to delight our eyes,and Why to make a suicidal Hartigan?,after all we wanted a complete scene Willis-Roarke together(better care they are so similar in their faces!!)and this didn't happened,in Sin City 2,Willis won't be present,and the awaited scene won't be made(both of them had bad partners in another films,f.ex:Don Johnson,only to be with P.M Thomas making the excellent "Miami vice",appeared with Roarke in the ill-fated "Marlboro..",Willis was lost in several times like "6th. Sense" and more miscast ed roles,only to play by some different performer).
But despite of these opinions,this movie was hallucinating,performers in the mood,specially Del Toro,he made me laugh so much,i confess about the comic,i haven't seen it so much as i wanna read it,but comparing with the movie is almost the same hot stuff:bl/white photos,a few hints of colored details,a plot in total harmony with the cameras(Marv dragging around that thug with his car!What a shot!) and blanked shadows!;Noir to the top!!,i reminded Cagney,Dick Tracy,french classics,Untouchables(TV series),some of Bogart and more masterpieces of the 7th. Art,Rodriguez left the awful"Mariachi" behind,and Tarantino the guest director,i mean he's overrated,but this time did it better than his grotesque "Pulp Fiction"(those crappy scenes never to remember about the rapists and Willis were naughty,loathly,that wasted the film!!!)but here was used its original narrative for good,Frank Miller did a great comic- book better than his offensive and bad-penciled "Dark Knight",but "Sin City" has entered through the big door,and we want for more.....
Good adaptation of a comic-book,better learn Bryan Singer!!!