Interesting. Original. Not Worth Watching.

Rating: 5/10 (28 May 2005)

OK, frankly speaking, I am not sorry I have watched this one. But had I known in advance how it was going to be, I would very likely rather not see it. The flick is action packed & draws attention, but it is a one more evidence, that Rodriguez had long ago gone out of style. His early movies were violent, but, in the same time, ironic & smart. Not only Sin City has got no meaning, while being rather pretentious, it is extremely overloaded with, at times, absolutely unnecessary violence, nudity & cursing. The main strength &, in the same time, the greatest weakness of the film, is that the atmosphere of Sin City is depicted as straightforward & natural as possible. While it is a great achievement to make a film so dark & gloomy with absolutely no positive characters, it is in the same time a major disadvantage. Since all the characters of Sin City are complete scum, I haven't feel compassion to any of them, which made me kind of indifferent to the story. As I have already said, the movie is overloaded with brutality, & thus it is a little hard to perceive. The acting is not that good either or it is just unnoticed, since the characters are undeveloped. I think the best job, in terms of acting, was done by Benicio Del Torro. Others' acting works will be easily forgotten. To conclude, Sin City is a pretentious, over-hyped, overloaded with violence & nudity technically amazingly well done movie, but with too little humor, absolutely no meaning & no soul.