Escape To Another Place

Rating: 8/10 (15 June 2005)

The strength and power of this movie lie in it's depiction of unreality. A comic book world is perfectly created here along with a comic book atmosphere. Everything here is mega-cool, melodramatic and ultra violent, all with the safe distance of fantasy. The men are blatantly macho with only the evil characters being unnecessarily rough, lacking in a moral motive for their actions. The women are sharp of tongue, tough as nails and sexy as hell! The intermittent use of colour that is used to emphasise or draw attention to something also works well and gives Sin City one of the most original styles seen on screen. Three stories are told here and while they don't really have much to do with each other, bar their setting in Sin City, the movie still fits together. It's probably a little over-long but generally it rolls along well and there's a good few laughs, even if half of them are at some poor stool getting his posterior royally kicked. Well worth seeing but just short of perfect!