...It's still a novel

Rating: 6/10 (20 April 2005)

The movie Sin City was entertaining, but had too many missing pieces. True the movie had all the action you would want, but it wasn't even in color... maybe that's brings more excitement, but I want details.
There are three different stories that are told, one story lasts for about 3 minutes, the second 20 minutes, and the third about an hour long. Then the second comes back for a good 40 minutes, and the first at the end for 1 minute. I understand how the director is trying to switch from point to point and connect them at the end, but the connection was horrible. The only connection made was when the 2 detectives were seen together in the bar. Their relation of Nancy was too little to make a good connection in story plot.
During the entire movie, only about a fourth of it consists of actual talking between actors. The narrator speaks for most of the film, which gets annoying after a short while. The detectives thoughts are too much like a novel, and should be more that of a movie.
A good thing about the movie was the action. It never stopped, and the heroes never died! Bruce Willis gets shot about 12 times, does not die until he commits suicide. Mickey Rourke must have been blasted over 60 times, especially with the Uzi guns... he doesn't show pain. This is not reality, too much like an action comic. Every villain except for Jr. gets shot ONCE and dies right then and there, this needs more reality.
6/10. Nothing special, but enjoyable. I didn't like the black and white, it gets extremely annoying after 18 seconds.