Very Violent and Overrated

Rating: 7/10 (14 August 2005)

"Sin City" has just been released in the Brazilian movie theaters and, when a saw the IMDb Rating #93, I said to myself: "- I will see "Sin City" in the theater". However, some movie lover's friends of mine were very disappointed after watching it. When I read the review of "Sin City" of the Brazilian director and journalist Arnaldo Jabor (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0413020/) on the newspaper, I definitely decided to rent the imported DVD and watch it with my family at home. We saw this movie yesterday, and we all did not like it. "Sin City" is visually impressive, with a magnificent black & white cinematography; the cast is a constellation; the opportunist, commercial and overrated director Robert Rodriguez indeed transposed a comic magazine to the screen using Tarantino's name and violence. However, the story has too much free violence and most of the characters are very nasty. I did not find "Sin City" a bad movie, but completely overrated. The spot of #93 is totally unfair and a complete disrespect with other films of the history of the cinema, some of them masterpieces of the worldwide cinema and not considered in IMDb Rating criteria due to the quantities of vote, as if quantity could mean quality. Further, I noted in the breakdown that most of this votes belong to young people, making me sad when I see how used to violence they are. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Sin City"