Twisted genius

Rating: 10/10 (3 April 2005)

Finally, 2005's first brilliant movie. I've been waiting patiently, and it's finally here. I loved every sick, disturbing minute of Frank Miller's comic book-translated film 'Sin City,' for a lot of reasons. I loved that it didn't take itself too seriously; how witty and surprisingly funny the script was; and most of all how no character was completely innocent, there was no hero. everyone was a hooker, or a serial killer, or a bad cop or whatever. The movie is stylistically mesmerizing...had it been translated without any special effects or without the black and white, the excessive violence would have been a thousand times more disturbing, which could have distracted from the movie. The soundtrack was brilliant, even the acting was perfect. This movie obviously isn't for everyone; and its unconventional style and structure clearly caused a lot of critics to dislike it, but from a movie lover's point of view, I enjoyed it thoroughly.