So ridiculously typical.

Rating: 1/10 (31 August 2008)

The art style and film-making are truly a masterpiece. The story itself is dull, lame, predictable, cliché, and in the end 100% forgettable.
I'll start with the action. To be blunt, there is hardly any at all. When the action happens it is lame and uninspired. It reminded me of dumbed down action scenes from Spider-Man, but even that is too much of a complement. Most of the film is nothing but people walking around and talking about things that make no difference.
So, with all the talking scenes and characterization scenes you'd expect the plot to be, you know, at least a plot. Oh, how wrong that assumption is. There is no plot. The mini stories that somehow are kind of a plot mixed together are generally boring, and entirely cliché. You've seen these mini stories on cartoons before.
But it doesn't even have the same level of fun, original cartoony feel. It's more like a bad cartoonlike Tom and Jerrythat has grown up but never matured. It just feels . . . awkward and boring. Like a 40-year-old man doing something like a 5-year-old. It's just lame.
This style of mature cartoony-fantasy has been NAILED in video games like Killer 7, which hone the originality and innocence of cartoons, but mix it with mean-spirited ultra-violence. Movies like Kill Bill also get it down. But Sin City simply doesn't know how to do that in a way that isn't boring and cliché.
But, as I said, it's truly a masterpiece in style. Too bad that style wasn't used for something original and cliché-defining, instead of a lame Spider-Man wannabe with some dumbed-down blood to make it seem action packed when I've seen more action watching people walk by my back yard.
. . . and I wish I was joking.
1/10