A film like I NEVER hope to see again

Rating: 1/10 (20 August 2005)

Sin City is a modern rendition of a comic book told in the film noir style. It's shot in high-contrast black and white with an ever-present voice over narration that gives it the feel of this genre of old. In the old days, film noir gave us a glimpse of a gritty reality and a chance to see dime novels on the screen. They were cheap to make and got the job done.
Sin City is an extremely stylized version of the film noir, and, because it is based on a comic book it looks like a comic book and has characters from a comic book. It's more of a comic book than a film. How artistic.
Now, it's entirely true that blood and gore in black and white tend to appear, well, less RED. So it may be necessary to cut someone's arms and legs off and let a dog chew at the stumps in order to compensate for the lack of redness. But the real reason is that black and white is much more artistic. Some people will mistake this comic book disguised as a film for art.