Bring back the 30's and 40's Sin City is here!

Rating: 9/10 (5 July 2005)

This heavily stylised distillation of all those great black and white movies of the thirties and forties takes every noir-tinged cliché, packs it into copper jacketed dum-dum bullets, and fires it at point blank range, in the head and the heart. Sin City is Violence and Emotion writ LARGEan excellent movie that ALL crime readers and viewers will lap up like the promise between the smooth thighs of a femme fatale! I loved this film, and it screams at me to get acquainted real quick with ALL Frank Miller's Sin City graphic novels.
One draw-back to the uninitiated; this movie is dialogue heavy, but the brilliant and original visuals make up a perfect balance. The film, as you all probably know is shot in the style of a comic book, with frames that carry the bare minimum of props ie, lit foreground revealing actor and single prop like a hospital tray and a drip feed. This style replicates the old studio pictures which were made on a tight budget, but it is used here to accentuate performance and scene. Many black and white film stocks are used in the telling of the tales within Sin City, as are vivid and garish sprays of stylised colour; blood is a sickly yellow, eyes glow green.
I hear there are going to be two further movies shot back to back later this year. I await those with breath bated!!
I give Sin Citynine out of ten!
Now I'm off to re-watch some classic Cagney crime capers!!