Very dark adult comic book with phenomenal visuals.

Rating: 7/10 (26 September 2018)

First and foremost, if it weren't for the visual effects "Sin City" would be nowhere; however, the visuals are absolutely gripping. The material itself is dark. Not like new moon dark--more like 2000 feet below the earth cave dark. Frank Miller frankly paints an absurdly evil world, and I that I think he actually has pretensions of making some sort of points about actual life, but this film is far too extreme, simple-minded, and cartoonish to constitute a significant contribution to the western philosophical canon.. No matter how extreme the violence, and it's pretty awfully extreme, it has minimal emotional impact--it's pretty much like you're watching a movie, so to speak. If someone accused Miller of "toxic masculinity", I wouldn't be standing up to defend him. All of the women are so hot, you'd scald yourself just brushing up against them, and all of the guys (both good and bad) work out all of their problems with extreme violence. Not really a happy place, although I do have to say an exceptionally stylish one. The plot ties together brilliantly as the film moves along well. If it could just have been edited down around another 20-30 minutes , I would have tossed it an extra star or two. Unfortunately the unrelenting bleakness just wound up overwhelming my tender.sensibilities