Fantastic

Rating: 9/10 (8 April 2005)

I must say, I am very impressed by this film. I do not read comic books, and I've never read the graphic novels for Sin City. This film has certainly made me curious.
The visual style is stunning, the romantic themes are endearing, the action is edge of your seat, and the characters are jaw-dropping awesome. I can't figure out why there is so much trashing by critics. What do you guys like??? Why do you even watch movies??? It's obvious that they miss the point on many great films, because SC grips you all the way and every five minutes it gives a moment where you just want to shout "DAMN, That was cool!!!!" The cast is top notch, the stories are excellent. Are there any flaws? None that got to me. It was a very satisfying experience.
To watch Marv, Hartigan, and Dwight in action is like watching Greek heroes from Mythology take on insurmountable tasks. It's Perseus vs the Medusa, Theseus vs the Minotaur, Jason traveling the world to get the Golden Fleece. These are ordinary men thrown into impossible situations, fighting the good fight for the sake of a woman they love. Each of them reaches a low point that spells their doom, but just as they are about to give up and die, they find within themselves the ability to go on, and not just cheat death in that moment, but to overcome defeat in ways they never dreamed possible.
This is all sounding dramatic, perhaps too dramatic, but these are the kind of moments that turn ordinary characters like Dwight, Marv and Hartigan into legends of epic mythological proportions, like Frodo or Luke Skywalker, Van Helsing or Hamlet, Odeysseus or Moses, etc.
Oddly enough, it's a very pro-Feminist movie. The women are very much empowered, and the good guys are very courteous to them, almost chivalric. It's refreshing to see a film that combines noir themes with outdated notions like chivalry. The film, despite its level of violence, is not crude. The dialogues and behaviors are from a bygone era in an age where TV And films try to shock us. There's a difference between "Shock value" and being "Jaw-Dropping". This movie balances all those details.
I highly recommend Sin City. It just kicks ass on many levels. Ignore critics. They don't get it, and they never will.