stay away from sin city

Rating: 1/10 (3 March 2007)

this movie is horrible. i can understand why many people would find it interesting, an interpretation of a comic book, a lot of action, and a fast paced story, but these are not the qualities that define a good film. The movie is a trashy crowd pleaser which holds nothing valuable behind its many special effects. it clearly demonstrates the trend of more and more modern main stream films as they fall down the slope from art work to trash. the movie focuses on characters with super human strength, mainly so they can be shot more and more without dying. the film is extremely bloody, violent, and in some senses sexually explicit. this is not to say that these themes should be stayed away from, but when a film takes violence and sex and uses them as tools for mass entertainment instead of for a greater purpose or in a way that adds character, style, and meaning to the film, then the filmmaker has failed at his craft. Overall, this film should be looked upon as a blunder in film-making and it is a shame that this world has lost enough sense and morality to put this film in the top 250.