Sin City - grain of salt recommended!

Rating: 5/10 (18 January 2006)

Well, of course I had high exspectations regarding this movie, it was hyped very much and it was hard to rent a copy at our DVD store even though they had more than 20 and even though it was in the middle of the week ... but I don't think that Sin City was worth all the Buzz. Two things that everybody said about the movie were true:
A) It is a visual gut fest and about the best comic adaption ever B) It is probably the most violent mainstream movie ever
A) is the sole reason why I still gave this movie 5 out of ten stars. They way everything is visualized is just perfect for a comic adaption and I do not know a single example that is getting close to Sin City regarding this! You can clearly see that they had real actors and real stages, on the other hand you can clearly see that it is a comic! It's hard to describe and I won't try to describe, one has to see it.
But that's about it. I don't mind violence in movies but in this case they exaggerated, SIN City or not. During the movie I always wondered how Sin City can keep up it's population ... by the end of the movie the city must be empty! You have several story lines plotted together and it works kind of well for the part with Bruce Willis, but in general you had the feeling that there just ISN'T any story, just some excuses to show more violence. There was no pause, almost no silent moments and the characters had nothing human left. Yeah, I know, it's Sin City and it's human to behave bad, but I think if those characters had some weak spots and some good attitudes, just *some*, everything would be more believable and the violence and bad behavior would have been more dramatical. But as it is, all I see is one crime after another, without any sense. the first 30 minutes were okay because of the visual effects but after an hour I had only one question "When will this have an end!?".
Note: I have never read the comics, so crucify me. But one of my friends did and he said the same about the movie. He liked the comics but the movie is exaggerated and has a lesser plot.