Extreme violence, great writing, great direction and for the most part, great acting!

Rating: 9/10 (16 August 2005)

Bruce Willis, Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke, Rosario Dawson, Jessica Alba, Alexis Bledel, Benicio del Toro, Devon Aoki, Nick Stahl, Michael Clarke Duncan, Jaime King, Brittany Murphy, Carla Guigino, Elijah Wood, Michael Madsen, Rutger Hauer, Patricia Vonne, Josh Hartnett and Frank Miller as the priest.
This movie is so entertaining, most of all because of the fabulous direction. The black and white, with spots of vibrant colors....it's cool! This movie is made up of three stories. The first story is about crazy man Marv(Rourke) meeting beautiful Goldie(King). He's really ugly, but she shows him compassion, but when they sleep together, someone kills her in the bed, and Marv is blamed for it. He goes on a killing rampage to find out who killed his girl. He ends up getting help by several hookers, including Becky(Bledel) and Gail(Dawson) and help by exotic dancer Nanci Callahan(Alba). The story runs at 34 minutes long, and is my favorite one.
Story two is about Shelley(Murphy), a skimpy waitress getting a visit from her ex-boyfriend Jackie-boy(Toro) and her new boyfriend Dwight(Owen) teaches him a lesson. When Jack leaves, Dwight follows him around and sees he goes to Whore's Alley and tries to pick up girls and with the help of hooker and his new girl Gail(Dawson) they stop him and stop crime boss Manute(Duncan) from taking over the alley. 39 mins.
Story 3 actually starts the film off with the first ten minutes of it, and ends it also. Nice cop Hartigan(Willis) has to retire from his job due to his bad heart condition, but he's not through. He needs to catch Junior(Stahl) who has skinny young Nanci Callahan(age 11) and is planning on raping her. Junior's dad is the senator and very powerful. Hartigan's ex-partner Bob(Madsen) realises that they will go down with Junior, and after Hartigan shoots Junior's ear, hand, and penis off, he shoots Hartigan and leaves him for dead. Hartigan is hospitilized and beaten merciless until he admits he raped her. He is put in jail for eight years and gets cleverly disguised letters from Nanci every Thursday. When he gets out, he sees Nanci, age 19 and tries to protect her from Junior, who had work done to grow his ear, hand and penis back, and has become a fat yellow freak. This segment is 38 minutes in length.
The opening/closing involves a romantic hit-man(Josh Hartnett) that seduces women and then kills them.
my review-A. Excellent coloring, when there is color. The blood looks even redder. The eyes look even bluer. It's cool!
rated R for non-stop extreme violence, sexuality and nudity.
*Beware..this is extreme violence including men getting limbs ripped off one by one, nonstop heads coming off, blood and guts all over and even a man getting his penis and testicles getting ripped off on screen.