Some Hyper Film Noir Mythology

Rating: 9/10 (9 March 2019)

The Foundation:
Anyone who studied cinema in any capacity had to watch some of Hollywood's classic Noir films and their French origins. They always packed a punch and dropped you into an alternate reality of deadly woman, intense protagonists and murder mysteries.
Sin City is a modern caricature of the aforementioned Noir tropes and an almost roided up version of all the classic elements.
Taking three different stories and protagonists this movie follows the comics to an unprecedented amount of accuracy.
The Graphic Noval is essentially used as the film's storyboard, adding camera movements only when appropriate and adapting Frank Miller's harsh and brutal world and art style with such attention to detail that is rarely seen in any modern Marvel movie.
Overview:
If you can handle hilghy stylized violence, extremely intense dialogues and brutal action: Sin City delivers bone cracking punches, themes and pistol shots to the dick.
If Sin City was an object it be a highly ornamented, black coated Zippo lighter. A bit of an overkill on the classic silver models of the good old days. It was designed with the same functionality of the originals but is ordained with every sharpy motorcycle buckle and is used to light both cigarettes, gas tanks and humans.
Cast:
No one was payed a lot of money in this production yet everyone delivers their A game.
Mickey Rourke was born to play Marv. The half tank half gladiator of the franchise. He gives Marv such depth of character that he makes you sympathize with this hulking, bleeding husk of a person.
Clive Owen's performance might seem to be the weakest of the bunch but I believe it had more to do with being in the middle ground story of the three. Some lines are just too cheesey to be taken seriously and I can't fault the actor for doing his best with the source material.
Bruce Willis gives his last good performance, meaning that Sin City was the last film I saw this guy act. Behind the scenes Bruce explained that a few minutes after seeing the test footage Rodriguez showed he was immediately asked to be apart of the film. It's obvious he enjoyed the role and his story is what ends the movie with a punch to the gut in what is the most powerful ending of the three stories. Ending on a bitter Noir note that couldn't be more appropriate.
Every other actor gives a solid performance and as always Rutger Hauer elevates any movie he's in if even for a few short scenes.
Soundtrack:
Rodriguez worked alongside some talented people to compose a dark, harsh Noir atmosphere with a rusty Saxophone and Bass guitars, the soundtrack takes you into the black and white world of Sin City and let's you feel its roughness throughout.
Summary:
This film was made before the comic book revolution and its interesting to think how much better this movie could have been received today after the success of Deadpool.
I'm always attracted to films that don't feel formulaic. You'd be stressed to find a more loyal adaptation of a comic/graphic book or novel.
This isn't Marvel or DC, this is something else and I only wish more movies like this existed. It's truly creative and celebrates it's source material to an impeccable degree.