an honest review

Rating: 5/10 (9 March 2006)

The visual style of this film is simply amazing. It truly is not a film at all, but Frank Miller's graphic novels simply on the big screen. However, although Sin City is visually dazzling, the story-line and dialogue sure aren't. Here is when certain things should have been left out. What may have been awesome dialogue in a graphic novel just sounds plain corny and blah in the theatre. Its like the script was not adapted from the original, it was taken straight from it. So, all in all, Sin City is visually incredible, but the rest of it is just plain tiresome and corny. Now, I realize that a lot of people love and worship this movie. However, they are too blinded by the special effects and the "coolness" of it. I'm sorry, but the lines spoken by the characters are just way too sappy and sometimes overly sentimental. Again, what works in a graphic novel does not work in a film. I'm afraid that fact was overlooked. Also, be forewarned those who go and see this, Sin City did not need to work hard to earn its R rating.