Only good if you like comics or graphic novels

Rating: 2/10 (24 February 2007)

Hey, don't get me wrong. I like some graphic novels and comic books. But this movie was seriously lacking and disturbing at the same time. I'll start with the worst part: the plot. Actually, there was no plot. I was reminded of the original Heavy Metal. A bunch of mini-movies loosely held together by a ball--that's right--see the movie to understand. Sin City was a string of stories that played on current fantasies of hot women running around with swords. The action was raw and the graphic parts were really graphic. Two people, a man and woman, get their jollies in a sexual way from killing. This crosses the "sick" line for me. I'm sure this is part of the great appeal that it has for the people who like the movie. BUT, if we step back for a minute, and look at the movie from a more objective standpoint, I think we will see it fail as a full-length feature film. The lack of plot and the graphicness for graphicness sake will eventually (in a few years when the "novelness" of the movie wears off) will sink this movie well below the top 100 movies of all time and put it where it should be--an interesting movie that has an avid cult following like Wizards or Heavy Metal.