about sin city

Rating: 10/10 (10 August 2006)

Sin city is based on the comic book with the same name, drawn and written by Frank Miller. The movie is also directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez. Quentin Tarantino is also directing a few scenes. The movie is very true to the comic book, and every scene is an exact copy from the serieruta. The actors are characteristic to the characters in the comic book and therefore it demands loads of make up and masks to made the movie authentic.
The movie is about Sin city, a town with bad cops, bloodthirsty inhabitants and killer hookers. There are three stories in the movie that weaves together in Old town: an area in Sin City where prostitutes rules, violence as much as sex.
The first story is about Hartigan (Bruce Willis) a police who is on his last case before retiring. Hartigan is hunting an obnoxious paedophile that raped and killed loads of children. Now he's got Nancy Callahan and Hartigan knows she's in big danger. Hartigan saves Nancy Callahan, but what he doesn't know is that the paedophile is Roark Jr, son to the man who rules Sin city. Hartigan takes away Roark Jr both his weapons (the gun in his hand and the thing near to his groins with which he'd wounded so many children with) by fire his gun. But Hartigan pays a price for what he did. Roark's father makes sure that Hartigan gets sentenced to prison for the crime his son made. Nancy Callahan knows that Hartigan is innocent but she can't testify, then Roark and his team will kill her. Nancy writes one letter a week to Hartigan while she is in jail, and by that, Hartigan knows that she's okay. But after nearly eight years, the letters stop coming. Hartigan must save Nancy (Jessica Alba) from Roarks Claws. And the only way to get out of jail is to confess the crime he didn't do.
The second story is about Marv (Mickey Rourke), a violent man who's not on anybody's side. He occupies himself with beating bad cops and hooligans, that have lead to Marv's face being totally maimed. No one wants to spend time with him, not even prostitutes who are paid for it. But although he gets to spend a night with the most beautiful creature god made, Goldie (Jaime King). While they are asleep, someone comes in to the room and kills Goldie. Marv, who thinks Goldie was an angel, demands a bloodstained revenge.
The third story is about Dwight (Clive Owen) whose girlfriend Shellie (Brittany Murphy) is bother by her Ex Jack (Benicio del Toro). Jack hits and humiliates Shellie and that makes Dwight indignant. He wants to teach Jack one or two. Dwight haunts Jack into Old town were Jack gets killed by the prostitutes: Miho (Devon Aoki) and Gail (Rosario Dawson). Too late they've got to know that Jack was a cop and not any cop, the cop who arranged that Old town could be a free zone for the prostitutes to make their own rules. If the surrounding world gets to know that Jack is dead, Old town will become a battlefield and in fast tumbledown. Dwight, together with his only true love: Gail, has to do everything in their power to save Old towns privilege.
OBS! i'm Swedish so forgive my bad grammar.