A super-cool film that is perhaps easy to forget...

Rating: 10/10 (2 April 2005)

Sin City is a direct interpretation of Frank Miller's graphic novels of the same name. It shows. Everything is done in a comic-book like fashion. The violence is very much stylized and the characters posses superhuman strength and ability. This is not necessarily a bad thing. The overall style of the film is something I have never seen in films before. The environments pull you into the twisted world that is 'Sin City'. And this city is dark...very dark. One of the main issues surrounding this movie is its adult content. I personally don't think that the excessive violence was offensive because it is shown in such an over-the-top way that it is often comical. There is a huge difference between comic-book violence and real-life violence. For example, in Sin City a main character is able to take ten bullets to the chest and keep on ticking. One of my favorite things about this movie is that it made me laugh when people were dying the most horrible of deaths (which is one of the reasons I think people who have a problem with the content will not enjoy this film at all). However I did have one problem with the violence. By the end of the film, so many characters had died that the important deaths of main characters had no effect on me whatsoever. Some of the dialogue was also so over-the-top that I found myself laughing when I shouldn't have. Specifically Michael Madsen (who I love), sounded like he was reading his lines directly from the pages of the comic-book. I would have liked to see some straying from the exact duplication of Frank Miller's works. It was also clear that each shot in the film was based on a frame from the comic. This means that the camera hardly moved (beautiful camera movement is what Robert Rodriguez does best in my opinion), and when it did move I was amazed at how nice that shot looked.
Overall I have to say that Sin City is a cool movie that is definitely worth seeing (maybe not remembering) if you don't have a problem with the content.