Visually appealing, but hard on the ears

Rating: 7/10 (5 April 2005)

If you don't mind terrible dialogue and only mediocre acting, then sin city is your movie. The visuals are everything that make this movie worth seeing, but a better script and acting could have made it great. Rodriguez's insistence on make a film as quickly as possible limits the actors' abilities to produce good work, and his script work is more like copying lines for detention, as the dialogue is straight from the graphic novels and that is obvious in the movie even if you haven't read them. Furthermore, the story revolves around four or five different stories which only have a connecting link of taking place in the same city, and are not interconnectable. All in all this movie is worth seeing for the use of digital film technology and Rodriguez's ability to tell an action packed story. However, the dialogue is cheese and the lack of a cohesive singular story make the movie difficult to sit through.