"There's nothing like having your friends turn up with a whole lot o' guns".

Rating: 9/10 (12 June 2005)

Set in a city where there's no good  just degrees of bad, worse and evil. Where all the men have square jaws, muscles and unstable personality disorders. Where the women are all sexy and dangerous (and invariably wearing very little). Sin City brings to life that seedy underworld forever hinted at in films but never carried off with such enviable style and talent. The exaggerated personalities of every character  all of which have purpose and a place of their own in the film, adds to the spectacle of such aesthetic magnitude that you'll have difficulty taking it all in.
This film is, in short, an instant cult hit. It has the makings of any truly crazy, violent and stylish film  beautiful hookers, twisted cops, cannibals, torture, and some tough thugs who just won't die! You need to see it to believe it, you need to live with the characters in their world and absorb yourself in the atmosphere in the cinema. Go see it  to believe that films this good really do exist. If there is a God  he's sitting up there wearing a black trench coat, listening to Rob Zombie, surrounded by the Dames of Sin City and creating films that are about as subtle as a sledgehammer.