A very different kind of movie.

Rating: 10/10 (14 June 2005)

I have very few complaints about this movie. It was gripping and exciting and completely different from anything else I have ever seen. There was the occasional nod to movies such as Pulp Fiction and even Batman, although fitting Sin City into any kind of genre is difficult (impossible?) to do.
To those who could not grasp the subtleties, yes, the women were all sex objects or victims (usually both), and the men were all equally single-faceted. Yes there were huge holes in the plots but once you asked yourself "WHY would he do that?" the answer is always "It doesn't matter because it's not real!"
The UK 18 certificate was something of a surprise. The violence was not shocking to me (and I'm a 48-year-old woman), but I felt it was more 'Tom and Jerry' than than anything else - no-one seems to ever be hurting as a result of it and the blood even tended to be white on black or even pink in places. As to the supposed nudity - well, I must have blinked and missed it or else it was cut, because I saw nothing that I hadn't seen on the beach at Brighton last week!
To sum up, a superb movie which looks outstanding, is performed beautifully and which I would like to think heralds a brand new way of writing for movies. Kind of "POST post-modern"?
The best I've seen in years!