Makes Kill Bill look like a PG movie

Rating: 7/10 (2 April 2005)

We saw Sin City on its opening night. Our local paper gave it 4 stars. Good thing it's black & white (with touches of color), because it is a real gore fest! I kid you not...it makes Kill Bill look like a PG movie. Decapitations, severed limbs, mangled penises, buckets of blood, hatchets in the face, viciousness toward women (and a child), lots of nudity (okay, that part wasn't so bad!), cannibalism, pedophilia, a drooling yellow devil...shall I go on?
It's one of the worst--no, wait, it's THE most violent/gory film I've ever seen on the big screen. However, it's all done in a stylized comic-book way--the blood is white instead of black. Otherwise it would be too graphic and sickening.
Sin City had some dark humor. In one scene, a very tough guy character is being put to death in the electric chair. After his body convulses and smokes, he opens his eyes, spits out a mouthful of blood, and says "Is that all you pussies got?"
I'm not familiar Frank Miller or the Sin City series at all, though I love Tarantino's films. (Tarantino was given a guest director credit because he lent a hand in a few scenes. And you can tell which ones.) This movie is well-done and interesting for the kind of movie it is, and it is definitely the ultimate in pulp fiction if you're a fan of the genre.