Upholding the status quo

Rating: 5/10 (4 April 2005)

Am I alone here? Is America really this spellbound by eye candy? Maybe it is, because this movie really isn't that good.
Yes, Sin City is visually stunning, a beautifully-drawn graphic novel done up in film, yada yada yada. But aesthetics only count for so much, especially in the originality department. When it comes to the simplistic plot and ultra-archaic portrayals of gender - every hero a tough-talking, leather-necked lummox, every female a boob-flashing damsel in distress (the gun-toting Old Town girls can hold their own, but Rodriguez/Miller had to balance out their toughness by making them whores) - this movie is just more of the same.