frank's fake feminism

Rating: Null/10 (14 July 2006)

this movie was all kinds of bad--- miller has fallen and fallen hard. rourke's performance and the slick visual style of the movie not withstanding, sin city has absolutely no redeeming features whatsoever. the plot, character and dialog clichés we're practically quantum, the overall mood and message was negative while the gratuitous violence seemed to serve no other purpose than to graphically and painfully illustrate how completely warped and out of touch miller's sensibilities have become. the most laughable and ridiculous aspect of this turkey was the way women we're depicted. it was like if he gave all the whores automatic weapons and ninja powers it would compensate for the fact that in sin city all women are either gun-toting homicidal hookers or victims of depraved psycho killers. film noir this was definitely not. millers comic book stuff was innovative and fresh back in the 80's, but if anything it seems as if either his muse has taken a hard left or the guy just doesn't have what it takes to make a watchable movie. probably a little of both. i'm sure a lot of fans are gonna disagree big time, but i'm sorry--this movie completely missed the mark.