The best movie I've seen in a while

Rating: 10/10 (2 April 2005)

Three amazing slightly intertwining story arcs make for one of the best movies I've seen in recent memory. This is a stylistic powerhouse of a movie - from beginning to end, almost every shot was taken directly from a frame within the pages of "Sin City." This is evident in some rather unconventional camera angles and color accents that add up to a refreshingly new and different viewing experience. The amazing black and white accents in blood and on Kevin's glasses and other such nuances are nothing short of impressive and really accent the few bits of color strewn about the movie, making clear the character's realities are, for brief moments in time, something more than the black and white, live or die realities they've grown all too used to. The dialogue is occasionally a bit campy and overdone, but this is understandable and almost necessary given the moody backdrop. Every actor and actress plays their part to perfection, and it doesn't hurt to have had a few scenes "guest" directed by Mr. Quentin Tarantino either (when you go see it, try and guess which ones! Not that it's very hard to tell). All this makes for one of the most unique, consistently stylistic movies I've ever seen, and (thus far) the only comic book/graphic novel adaptation really worth seeing. For that, I give a 10/10