The most faithful comic book adaptation ever made

Rating: 5/10 (9 January 2006)

You've got to give Sin City something: it's the most faithful comic book adaptation ever made. The grisly comic-book noir has never been shown on the big screen so well. If you have the maturity of a twelve year-old, then you will love the glorified violence, and over- the-top gore. However, if you're looking for any substance, you will be sorely disappointed.
At first the filming style is somewhat amusing to watch, the very first scene in the film shows a hit man seducing a beautiful girl, and then shooting her. The colors in contrast to the monotones, and the striking CGI backgrounds are awe-inspiring for about five minutes, but once you've gotten past all of that you realize that you feel nothing for the characters on screen, you have gained no uplifting (or depressing) insight, and you would have been better off spending your five minutes clipping your toe-nails. The rest of the movie is even worse.
The over-the-top violence, which could have been disturbing, is anything but stimulating. Seeing the soulless serial killer of the story (whose one-sided character has more depth than any other's) have his arms and legs sawed off, and then fed to a wolf didn't even make me twitch. And it's far from an aestheticization of violence, after watching the film I'm just about as exited about ripping off someone's testicles as I am watching paint dry.
Rather than add any resemblance of depth to the two-hour film, the story is split up into three sections, only one of which is worth sitting through, for Bruce Willis's performance (which is decent despite the film). Though I don't see how anyone could find the film exciting, the only reason to see it is if you have a violence fetish. In which case it is about as high quality as any pornographic film at the dirty video store down the street.