One Wild Ride

Rating: 10/10 (2 July 2006)

I was reluctant when I rented this movie because I had heard from several people it was terrible. But, it was guest directed by Quentin Tarantino. I then sat in my basement and for two straight hours was blown away.
It's hard to describe the plot of Sin City; it is three self contained stories that overlap ever so slightly in a bar scene. The first stars Mickey Rourke as Marv as he goes on a killing rampage to find the man who killed a hooker he'd been with the night before. The second stars Clive Owen as Dwight and Benicio Del Toro as Jackie Boy. In this segment Dwight has to stop the mob from getting possession of a cop's head in order to stop a outright civil war in Sin City. The third stars Bruce Willis as Hartigan and Jessica Alba as the illustrious Nancy Callahan; this story is about a child molester who terrorizes Nancy.
Sin City is one of the most unrelenting, non-stop, action movies I've ever seen. In essence it's noir at the top of it's game. The movie is a thrill ride from start to finish. The movie's a blood bath that looks at itself and has the audacity to laugh. The characters treat these outrageous situations with a dark sense of humor and twisted nobility. What the film does very well is blend realism with impossibility, for example, in Sin City it's impossible to kill someone. In one sequence a man gets hit by a car several times and walks away unscathed.
The movie is outrageous, unrelenting and just a lot of fun to watch. Shown in stylistic black and white, people will either love it or hate it. I, personally, find it to be one of the best films of the 21st century.