"A New Hope" In Film-making; This Generation's "Star Wars"

Rating: 9/10 (26 July 2005)

When one does this sort of thing, it won't go unnoticed. Sin City is the 21st century's "Star Wars", using the best of, surprisingly, off the shelf software, and digital video, to recreate Frank Miller's drawings in his amazing Sin City graphic novel collection.
I don't think this movie would be possible if we were still in the "dark age" (as Robert Rodriguez calls it) of film, and negative cutting. This film was done so fast and quickly with digital everything: editing, score, set building, and many other things that expand a 50ft (if even that) green screen to a huge city. Though one of the main attractions of this masterpiece is it's digital process, the three stories (excluding "The Customer is Always Right) are, if not disturbing, excellent and humorous. There is a scent of Tarantino in this, yes, he did direct a scene in this, but the words from the comics, and things that happen, are very Tarantino.
Why are we attracted to the darkness of life? Murder; crime, sex...we are attracted to it because these things happen in real life. Though it may be very fantasized, a prostitute that sleeps with a muscle builder could be killed by a cannibal. We love these stories because they are real without scaring us that they can happen to us...we love them because they can do this to us.
All in all, however you look at it, Sin City is a breakthrough not just in film-making, but in storytelling and style. See this immediately; fall in love with every character, whether they be good or bad; applaud how the actors act (which is very well); and be amazed at how it is directed, and how it looks. Be ready for one of the best films ever created. Be ready for Sin City.