Despite Miller/Rodriguez/Taratino anti-Religious Paranoia, pretty good

Rating: Null/10 (2 April 2005)

I awaited this movie for months, and despite the fact that the directors paint religious people with a broad, negative brush, it more or less delivers.
I liked the creativity of the occasional color splashed against the back and white, tweaking the traditional motif of most film noir movies being completely aesthetically black and white. Sin City revives a genre that is dying on the vine.
I also think that the dialog is some of the best of its kind. It's descriptive yet staccato enough to stay cool, which is the ultimate demand of a film noir film.
The violence is not for everyone. It in fact is over the top, primarily in the Tarantino directed sequences (you'll know when).
Religious people do not commit acts of such brutality that are perpetrated in this film. If the character who killed so many people were gay or of some other social minority, many people would take to the streets in protest.
I will overlook the fact that a groups was painted with such a broad brush in favor of me being a comic book fan who has waited a long time to see this movie. Recommended with great reservation.