Sin City: A Heaven Sent Comic Book Movie

Rating: 10/10 (2 February 2007)

Sideways. Batman Begins. Brokeback Mountain. Three of 2005's best film. Another movie that should be entered into that list is Sin City, a brilliantly acted, exciting comic book noir action thriller starring an all-star cast lead by Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke and Bruce Willis. The film is directed by Frank Miller (the author of the Graphic Novels on which Sin City is based) and Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi, Desperado) and even has a scene directed by Quentin Tarantino.
Although the good guys are a bunch of lowlifes and cutthroats you can't help but cheer them on, while the villains are some of the most evil and horrible characters ever to grace the silver screen. The ever brilliant Clive Owen excels as Dwight, Bruce Willis shows that he hasn't lost any of his super coolness as ex-cop Hartigan and Academy Award winner Benicio Del Toro (Best Actor in a Supporting Role 2000- Traffic) is wonderfully creepy as perverted cop Jackie Boy. But it's Mickey Rourke who steels the show as relentless ex-con Marv who is out for revenge on Elijah Wood's (Lord of the Ring's Frodo) cannibal Kevin after he murdered his one true love, Goldie (Pearl Harbor's Jaime King).
Rodriguez' idea to make the film in the format of a comic book and not as a normal film and shoot it in black and white adds to the atmoshpere and gives the movie a wonderful eerieness. Someone give this man an Oscar. In conclusion, it may be Spiderman who is raking in the big bucks, but it is Sin City that will not only remain the ultimate comic book movie but also become an all-time classic.