A sinfully delicious hard-boiled detective trilogy.

Rating: 10/10 (1 April 2005)

Film noir like no other. Filmed in authentic comic book style of highly contrast black and white, except for a few startling splashes of bright color used as accent. SIN CITY is a stylized anthology consisting of three of Frank Miller's gritty neo-noir comic book tales. Miller and Robert Rodriguez direct with help from a special guest director Quentin Tarantino.
An aged cop John Hartigan(Bruce Willis)is just a few hours away from early retirement caused by his bad ticker. This hard ass cop tries to save an 11-year old girl from a pedophile. Privite dick Dwight(Clive Owen)tries to protect his friends of the street...Sin City's whores, sluts and hookers. And homely Marv(Mickey Rourke)is a tough-as-nails and almost hard as hell to kill street brawler who goes berserk and on a rampage to find the killer of the beautiful Goldie(Jaime King), the only girl to sleep with him. Gangsters, cops, killers, bawdy femme fetales, guns blazing, knives plunging slicing and dicing, thugs and just plain weirdos of the criminal kind...now that's a combination sure to make this film a cult classic.
The cast is riddled with talent: Benicio Del Toro, Michael Madsen, Josh Hartnett, Alexis Bledel, Elijah Wood, Rutger Hauer, Rosario Dawson and Michael Clarke Duncan. This is probably the best thing Willis has done in years. And the almost unrecognizable Rourke is superb. The visuals are meticulous, aggressive, imaginative and sensational and presented like no other. Strong violence, various degrees of nudity and sexual content with vivid dialogue make up this masterpiece.