A Moving comic book

Rating: Null/10 (24 April 2005)

I'm not going to analyze this movie based on its story, because why you would want to take my opinion on something like that is beyond me.
I will look at its artistic sense. We've seen a huge slew of comic books(and video games) gone movie recently. Xmen, spiderman, Punisher, daredevil, electra, LXG, and the list goes on.
But all of these movies above are live action versions of the comic book. All of them fail to achieve what Sin City does, which is bringing real life animation, while still reminding you that it's a graphic novel. The use of black and white photography, with such comic book style faces is amazing. Elijah Wood's character looking like an evil charlie brown w/ glasses was kinda creepy.
What really made the movie was how everything was so stylized. I'm not a huge fan of senseless violence, but when it's so obviously fabricated and fictionalized like in Sin City, it's just so much better. It's unfortunate that this movie most likely will not win, or even be nominated for academy awards, which it would definitely be in contention for in make-up, direction, and cinematography.