A new genre

Rating: 9/10 (4 April 2005)

Sin City takes something that was whole yet limited in descriptive dimensions (the graphic novel), and does it pure justice by bringing it to a new audience, adding the right music, the right motion, the right sound, cast, color, makeup, voices, and other tools of recreating reality.
Does this graphic novel-turned movie lack the creativity we expect from movies? Was Rodriguez wrong to adapt Frank Miller's graphic novel panel-by-panel into a movie? I feel like a common response would be, "its nothing new, it doesn't do what a movie should do. It should have been the movie 'edition' of the graphic novel, not just a panel-to-panel match of the illustrated book. It should do what a movie does" My mind says that the transcription was perfect, it brought to life something beautiful that could only be copied, not altered. To do so would be to scar the child that Frank Miller created.
Does the movie refresh the audience? Sure it does. Generally it is violent, yet sensibly violent; angry yet impartially angry. It outlines a criminal method of living that I see people get fascinated with. It seems we are horrified by the possibility of it this horror existing within our reality, but instead of writing the surreal situations as too fantastic to be possible, the tiny flecks of sympathy and humanity made me feel that such extremity isn't far-fetched. I was gripped with intensity. Things such as love (Harington and Nancy), obsessive behavior (Marv), and fear/greed Becky remind us of sympathy, adolescent infatuation, and a common desire for safety and security.
Overall, this movie is true to its graphic novel roots. It is not about promoting an actor's ability, but about adding motion and music to a story that already is great.