Gritty, gory, and exciting

Rating: 10/10 (7 March 2006)

Parents beware: this two hour and ten minute thrill ride is not for the young ones. Frank Miller's Sin City graphic novels leap to life in what is, in my opinion, the most cinemantographially beautiful movie, that I have ever seen. The movie is artwork, frame by frame, only strengthened by the all-star cast you must see to truly behold. Mickey Rourke is acclaimed by all who have seen it, but I believe that Bruce Willis and Clive Owen turned out very, very good performances as well. The acting, even though the lines are extremely cheesy here and there, is superb; it was easy for me to picture Willis as an old cop or Josh Hartnett as a hit-man(he did well, even in his 90 seconds of screen time.)Every molded into Miller's fictitious world perfectly. The three seedy tales the movie portrays are all interwoven in an intricate time frame many don't understand. The atmoshpere is topped off with the constant narration of the main character currently being followed, and it is more than idle commentary. It's truly a sad, sad shame that Rodriguez had to resign from the DGA in order to have the film properly done, for it surely would have won a few Oscars. The only complaint is the soundtrack(or lack thereof.) There are two songs used in the movie!