The all or nothing days.... they're back!

Rating: 10/10 (23 April 2005)

"WOW!" Sin City demands that you say that at every step of the way. the gravel blowing car chases, the film noir dialogs, the amplified gun shots, the style, the multiple castrations.... all the elements add up to a movie that is an example of both high art and i-wanna-watch-it-again-and -again entertainment. It calls to mind many things... Pulp fiction(the three slightly connected stories), Kill Bill (the blood and oh-so satisfying violence), Desperado (the cool kills and real men), James Hadly Chase(the cooldbloodedness of it) and all the 20's and 30's detective movies you ever saw.
But Sin City is quite unique. You have never seen a movie quite like it. The characters are brilliant. Almost all the characters fit the bill so nicely that i would not have any of them replaced by anyone else. But a special mention to Mickey Rourke as Marv who takes the cake for the big psycho we all love.
At the end of the movie you wont feel touched emotionally. But that was one thing that I am sure Frank Miller never tried to achieve. What you do feel is satisfied. You feel like living in the days when you could walk down a street with a gun in one hand, a knife in the other and a cigarette in your lips. The all or nothing days....
I read the comics immediately after I saw the movie and again saw the movie immediately after i read the comics. The adherence is unbelievable. Almost no dialog has been altered and almost every scene is lifted right out of the frame of the comic-book. You can keep the comic book and the movie frame beside each other and play spot the difference and lose. In my opinion though the movie does much more justice to the over-sized men and lethal prostitutes than a graphic novel ever can. You have to hear the bones cracking to catch the entire effect.