Not really even a feature film

Rating: 1/10 (22 April 2005)

I had a hard time sitting through the film. The narration is endless, and after a while grating. The film is really not a feature length motion picture, instead it's three short films with a few common characters. The actions of the common characters do not effect the through line to each short story so it's really a cheat to bill as a feature what is essentially a collection of vignettes thrown together for length. One of the stories bookends the other two. One story involves a huge guy who is framed for killing his one true love. It's great. I wish they had expanded it into a feature picture. The protagonist was interesting and the story was compelling. The other two stories were all style and no substance. I was bored. I very nearly walked out of the theater, and seldom do I like a film so little. When I go to see a feature, I want to see a feature. A compelling story with a through-line told over about two hours. This was not that, and I think selling it as such is misleading. Skip Sin City you're not missing much, or rent it and watch the one worthwhile short film within it.