Great comic book look spoiled by viciousness of ALL characters.

Rating: 3/10 (1 April 2005)

First off, I'd like to say that I grew up reading Frank Miller Comics and graphic novels (Electra:Assassin, Wolverine, Dark Knight Returns, Daredevil, etc). Most of his protagonists had a dark side and an edge. Fine. But show me one character in this movie who has any redeeming qualities at all. The only one that possibly comes to mind is the Nancy Callahan character played by Jessica Alba and to a degree the character played by Bruce Willis. Everyone else is just unsympathetic. All the women in the movie are whores(most likely reflecting the Producers' opinion of women in general), some have hearts of gold, some are murderers who kill for pleasure. Senators' sons can rape and kill at will with no outcry from the public. One protagonist goes on a shopping trip to equip himself for sadistic torture and murder of a bad guy(a cannibalistic, murdering Christian). All of the Catholic clergy in Sin City are whore mongers, murderers and some are cannibals. Being a Protestant myself, I'm well aware of Catholic corruption, but this goes WAY TOO FAR! It is also amusing how the Weinsteins produced this Christianity-bashing movie, but they cried 'anti-Semitism' when the Passion of the Christ came out. They create anti-Semitism when they produce this crap, and such negative portrayals of the dominant religion in America. Religion can, and has been abused by people, but this movie isn't even trying to make a statement about that. The best morality this movie can come up with is Bruce Willis' character vocalizing that it is wrong for him to have any amorous relation with the little girl that he rescued who in now a 19 y.o. stripper(OK, not ALL women are whores in this movie). But heck, when she has grown up to be such a looker, who can find fault with him making out with someone the age of his granddaughter. There used to be a time when producers felt a social obligation and tried to uplift youth, or deal intelligently with their problems, but this movie caters to the worst instincts of teenage and young males with cheap thrills(gratuitous violence, half-naked women with guns, bad language, toilet humour) to make a buck. Great comic book look and style, but style goes only so far. Wait for it to come out on cable.