This film goes way beyond just production values and acting.

Rating: Null/10 (4 April 2005)

The immensity of this film struck me not as I was watching it, but while I was thinking about it afterward. From a technical viewpoint, it is an incredible film. The acting is amazing, the film techniques are unique and wonderful and the special effects are mind blowing. However, all of these pale in comparison to the thematic ideas behind this film. This film is an exploration of what it truly means to be a Hero. It looks at Free Will. It looks at Sacrifice. It looks at Love. All of that capitalization is on purpose. These are big ideas. This is a huge film. It encompasses all of those ideas and wraps it up an an incredibly compelling story. When looking for comparisons, all I could do was to compare this work to the classic work of another Miller. Arthur Miller and his seminal work Death of a Salesman. Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez have captured and exposed a part of the American psyche that many people don't want to admit. Even in the struggles of, what many people would consider, the dregs of society, there is truth, justice and, yes, even the American Way in the way these characters approach their own versions of Honor. To think that there are things to learn, even from those dark people that populate the dark world of Frank Millers Sin City. Go see this movie. You will be a better person for it.