The destruction of a good comic

Rating: 3/10 (7 March 2006)

I own Sin City in its original comic book form. All the episodes. And I can't believe how something that nice can be destroyed so thoroughly.
Not only doesn't the comic form fit the movie screen but the sets and actors used are horrible. The CGI is dull and lifeless. Where Miller could draw a stark scene in a few outlines Rodrigues copies it perfectly to the big screen with the result of making it totally unlike the original. It is not possible to copy the aesthetics of still images to motion pictures. The two formats rely on too different premises.
And the actors chosen to fill Millers comic book outlines have managed to do just that - outline the characters without ever making them credible. The acting, with a notable exception of Mickey O'Rourke as Marv, is as dull and lifeless as if showing static comic images on the screen.
Ad to this the fact that Rodrigues has somehow managed to turn the strong women in Millers fiction into cringing damsels in distress and you've got an unappealing paste of bad clichés in a humanity- and female-hating form.