Sin city heights

Rating: 8/10 (26 July 2006)

I have to say this was a brilliant film. I thought the look and atmosphere the film generated were superb and the story lines were thoroughly enjoyable. The cast blew me away, I knew that there were a lot of strong actors, but the amount of actors that I recognised that were in the film just took me away. I must admit my favourite was elijah wood, when watching the lord of the rings, I found his voice to be very annoying, and I hated the was he made his scenes very camp with Sean astin. So I was very surprised when he didn't say a word, but made a convincing psycho, who gave Marv a run for his money, before eventually being fed to the dog, and he didn't even scream!!! Visually stunning, this was helped by Alba cowgirl routine and also the prosthetics on Rourke and stahl were very creative and fitting. Hartnett's role was a very short one, but I found his role very poignant, a great way to start the film and then a cool way to end it. The dialogue was brilliant as expected from Miller but it also took me back to authors like Raymond chandler and the great dedicative stories of the pass.
Very engrossing, cool, slick and well made definitely a film to go and see.