Crime portrayed amazing..

Rating: 10/10 (10 December 2006)

Watching the legend of a comic book come alive right in front of my eyes was something that I wasn't truly ready for. I had supposedly shunned away from the hype of Frank Millers dark cliché' being made into cine-art.
I was none the less amazed in wonder as three stories of redemption jumped, pulsated, and then steamed up my TV when watching the DVD after succumbing to the advertising allure at the Best Buy, or was it Tower Records. The signs that should have been obvious to me are now blurred into a world where the dames deserve better than this two bit hooker life and I should have known better. Without my medicine, it's too hard to know what's real anymore. Do the people that I'm killing on the way to the truth really deserve it? Or have I become what they said I would, A homicidal murderer...
So goes the over the top, comic book inner-dialog of each of our three heroes. The these long black and white vignettes are secondary to the eye candy of of the shady side of town world amazingly re-created by directors Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez. The story is about the town itself, Basin City where hope was replaced long ago by survival. There is little color in this town and in this film, so when color takes over scenes, as in the opening of red lips and green eyes, you know it's to be savored.
Oh yeah... a dark film with dark characters. None of which needs explaining. To put in chronological order would be a waste. What's the point? Bruce Willis as a dying cop with a bum ticker, trying to save a girl who might already be dead. Mickey Roark as the super-anti-super-hero Marv who's out to die for the murder of a beautiful call girl whose murder was pinned on him. Then there is Clive Owen, the pretty tough boy on display, caught between all worlds. Benicio Del Toro again steps into a character and you can't figure out