Sin City grabbed me by the heart...

Rating: 10/10 (2 June 2005)

...dragged me along the ground by it, and dumped me in a grimy alley.
The best production design since Sky Captain, the darkest yet funniest violence since Reservoir Dogs, Sin City knows just where to play the clichés and where to subvert them, and how to twist the stories into a whole that was like nothing I have ever seen before. The atmosphere - of seedy, decayed urban life where everyone has to fight to stay alive and every authority figure is plain corrupt and where your best friend can be your worst enemy - is what this film is all about, and it delivers it in spades and then some. This is the best comic book movie ever made.