the best comic book film

Rating: 10/10 (15 May 2006)

I loved reading two of the Sin City books in this film, one of which is the famous and first in the series "The Hard Goodbye" it's the story of Marv, who is played by Mickey Rourke and he does an amazing job, he basically wakes up to find out that Goldie is dead, and he then goes on a rampage to find out who done it, don't worry what I said doesn't give any of the story away.
The one thing that stands out in the whole film is the way that it looks, it's very much like Sky Captain and the world of tomorrow, in terms of it's a very 1950's comic book feel, but this however is done in the better way. It's done in Film Noir basically another way of saying "like kill bill" everything is a bit over the top, such as the gun shots and the blood, etc. but thats the idea of the comic. The film is also done in a monotone effect (thats right your thinking what the hell is that) in other words only the primary colours are shown (so red, blue and yellow).
The opening scene to the Marv story is scene for scene the same as the comic, while I sat and watched it on DVD I had to go and get my comic book from upstairs in my room and see how close the book it was, and believe me it's perfect. I thought that Batman Begins was close when I saw that but then this come out and I thought perfect.
However I preferred the Hartigan story "that yellow Bastard", I thought that this story was better in terms of the way that it looks as a posse the the story (though the story is excellent and Bruce Willis is Hartigan, Mickey Rourke steals the spot light in this film) the Night club scene is the best scene ever when the lighting changes, and the whole editing is spot on, it's again how the comic is.
Most of my friends were put off by the Black and White effect and found it to be a bit dull, however with the Special Edition version (which you should get because it has an extra 30 minutes) you see it all in colour and see that it's so much more different. For my A level media project I actually used the Sin City style and watched it in colour and could see how much of a difference it made.
There are other famous actors and actresses in this film Jessica Alba, Benicio Del Toro, Michael Clarke Duncan, Michael Madsen, Clive Owen and Elijah Wood and they all do amazing performances. If you like the Sin City comics then you will love this film, it's true to the comics, and is actually directed by Frank Miller (creater of Sin City) it's perfect in the way that it's shown but I think to get the most out of it you need to see the Extended edition, it's a bit more expensive but it does explain the story and also you don't have to worry about watching them all you can watch the one you want when you want.