This is as close as it gets to reproducing a graphic novel

Rating: 9/10 (23 October 2006)

There have been/will be attempts to transfer graphic novels/comic strips to screen. By the time of X-Men 3's release, it should have been obvious that 'one doesn't annoy the fans or, indeed, treat them as idiots'. We are, after all, where the money comes from.
Sin City is as close to representing the graphic novels upon which it is based as it can get.
OK. Film Noir: directors, camera-persons, actors, scripts. By definition dark, moody and broody. Regardless, along comes Sin City.
Violent; feminist; misogynist; brutal; improbable; hopelessly romantic; heroic; disturbing; and, ultimately, an homage to what has come before. It is, as close to perfect, as it can be.
What is immediately apparent, are the multiple narrators, most of whom die. Or do they? The constant shift between points-of-view is SO cool! As is the feeling that 'something wicked this way comes'.
Black and white? No way... those blacks and whites are infused with ink. Just as on the paper used by the author. Frank knows who he is. And so do we.
Kudos. Forget the Marvel characters. THIS is where love hurts.