Ah, to be seventeen again.

Rating: 10/10 (8 December 2005)

Very, very Mild Spoilers. A quote and things like that, nothing worldshattering.
Sin City is a great movie, and it is made with an attitude I like. Now, you seem to have a whole lot of people bitching about CGI, while I understand their grieves, it is not CGI that is the problem, it's how it's used. CGI is a tool, to blame tools is a strange thing to do. Here, you really have a movie that uses it well, what am I saying 'well', lets say: 'brilliant'. The combination of the CGI, how the camera moves, what happens in the screen, and how it is edited is actually magic, real magic. More doesn't need to be said of that. It's jawdropping amazing, and shows what really can be done with CGI.
Now, as for the content of this movie, I didn't know anything about the Sin City comics. But that didn't really matter. The stories are hard and testosteronerised, which one would expect and I presume that in this age of advertising etc.. everyone somewhat knows what to expect. It's also called Sin City for a reason you know. The movie has 3 story lines, which are just 3 events in the Sin City world. The best of these 3, or my fave, is the one with Marv. I'll focus on that one here, because I just love it. It is incredible. The way Marv escapes the cops, by jumping of the stairs flying trough a rain of bullets, it's breathtaking, and immediately makes a point, this is no ordinary guy. Than we have a conversation between him and a Naked Carla Cugino! One of the hottest women in Hollywood(check out the movie Judas Kiss where she plays Coco Chavez, for further proof). But back to that conversation, when Marv says this: 'This is blood for blood and by the gallon. These are the old days, the bad days, the all-or-nothing days. They're back! There's no choice left. And I'm ready for war.' He's waving his arms around, and the gestures he makes, they seem so grand, it almost has something religious about it, like something ritual or holy, just the gestures he makes there. It's beautiful. The entire Marv segment is incredible, the jokes(the coat, the way he interrogates a guy while driving him down the road, literally.), Elijah Wood's mysterious menacing character, When Marv is waving his axe trough some cops and you think back of the words Dwight said about him,'waving his axe on an ancient battlefield..',... It's just too good. And Mickey Rourke is perfection, although totally unrecognizable, I hardly think anyone could have played the role like that, hell, I don't even think Mickey Rourke could have played like that. The other two story lines are good also, very good even, but it would take too long to go into specifics on each of them.
There seem to be some people who are complaining about the degrading portrayal of the female characters. Euhm, sorry, but that is a bit stupid, isn't it obvious, that this isn't a real world? That this world is one of hookers and gangsters. And I wouldn't call the women in this movie weak characters, the hookers are very capable of standing up for themselves. Are they portrayed as lust objects? Yeah, but so what? This is a world that is just like the fantasy of a seventeen year old, and you may be sure, that women are lust objects to most 17 year olds, hell, they are lust objects to most any year olds. Lets not be hypocrites about this, who doesn't like to look at a hot woman? It's just nature. So, really that whole fuzz is just a bit too exaggerated. Lets not be crippled by political correctness please, this movie is not, and if you don't like that, bad luck. Also notice that the three story's all go about defending/revenging a woman, so really the whole thing is just overblown. It's a violent movie, and that is made pretty clear, so why get upset on the movie because it's violent?(to women, while the women are simply just violent too.)
Some people may also complain that it's overstylised or something like that, well let them whine, cause baby, this kind of style, is just absolutely divine.
Anyways, I think I made my point, it's an incredible film. The acting is impeccable. The Marv segment is delicious and sublime. The whole movie has a wicked style. And I like it. It's new and fresh, and we finally have a movie that really does something with CGI. I hope I will be seeing more things like this.