Booze, Broads, and Bullets easily sum up the beauty of Sin City

Rating: 10/10 (17 April 2005)

Sin City deserves a ten for it's look alone. It did what Sky Captain was supposed to do and made Digital Filming look better than anything ever seen by movie-goers. But, despite its visual beauty, Sin City's highest point comes from the one thing that is really on the set, the actors.
Without a doubt, the Best Acting all year goes to Mickey Rourke, who is brutish, tormented, and insane, and makes it look so damn good. He portrayed Marv better than Jamie Foxx portrayed Ray. Bruce Willis, while not the perfect look for Hartigan, but earns his acting chops after the dismal yet extremely different Whole Ten Yards character. Clive Owen was truly marvelous as Dwight and showed great versatility by dropping his heavy British accent. But however good the good guys are, you know it's cooler to be a bad ass bad guy. Elijah Wood will scare you to hell and back (pun intended) with his beyond creepy smile and stare. Nick Stahl is great as always as the crazed pedophile we all know and love, and Benicio Del Toro, whose character is drunk in every scene he is in, highlights the baddie section with another mind-blowing performance that blows the barrel right off the gun.
Robert Rodriguez has nearly kissed his chance of an Oscar goodbye after he quit the D.G.A. to do this film with Frank Miller, and all who see this piece of art should thank him for the sacrifice he made to bring us this truly remarkable film.