Sins have never looked so cool

Rating: 9/10 (9 August 2005)

Okay, I think we have a winner! In the past, we've a great deal of comic based films which have generally followed a familiar formula: Hero saves city from bad monstrous freak. Though I have generally enjoyed most entries into this genre, I have to say that few have really tried to push the boundaries of cinema.
With Sin City, based on Frank Miller's graphic novel's, we have given something stylistically different to anything before it, a dark as anything 50's world were nothing is right, and the 'heroes' are always severely flawed in some way.
I personally loved everything about it. The look of the film, almost entirely made up in digital, creates an atmosphere unlike anything you will see in other films. The dialog, though certainly not 'mainstream', offers a great throwback to another time when one-liner's and narrative's were king. The characters, many of whom you will love, would be despicable in another world, but here they are as unique as the world miller has created, and are made to be cared about.
Despite some claims that it moves at lightning pace, there are times when it is slow up a bit. It cannot be understated that the film is incredibly gruesome in parts as well, though not overly gratuitous in it's attack on the senses. However, if your after something that's a little different for a change and can handle the gore, then check it out!!! You won't be disappointed.