It's Good To 'Sin'

Rating: 9/10 (2 April 2005)

Kay, it's time to talk Sin City, folks.
It's very interesting film indeed. Excellent directorial style/film editing. I love how it was all set up like an old film noir. It was a creative idea how it was mostly a black & white film, but then you'd also see bits of colour throughout, like maybe they'd show someone's eye colour for a moment, etc. Also I think it's the best comic book to screen adaptation I've seen to date. Seriously it played like something you would've read right off the page, (I even started reading some of this very recently, and I have to say all the things I read so far looked and felt familiar to me).
As far as acting goes, EVERYONE did a very good job (with the exception of Alexis Bledel, which aside from her attire I had a hard time picturing her as a hookershe just couldn't leave her role of Rory behind her, AND I've never really even seen the Gilmore Girls to know that's who she is, so I guess perhaps that says a lot). But everyone else was fine. Too be fan-biased of my favourite celebrity momentarily, Elijah Wood's role was, er um, 'different' to say the least. I mean I've seen him get violent in movies before (Ash Wednesday comes to mind here though I must say his costar in that Rosario Dawson did a much, much better job here in Sin City), but uh yeah that was interesting. AND unlike his above mentioned costar Miss Bledel he is proof that stars can move successfully past certain roles. Sure we'll always remember that he is Frodo, but it's not going to stop his career anytime soon because there are no more LOTR movies for him to do (so yep, no Mark Hamill syndrome for him, whew not that I was ever worried about that because he was good in a lot of things even before LOTR came along, but still good to know he's still got it)
So, all in all an excellent movie. Now the film geek in me is just dying to know which scene Tarantino directed, heh.
9/10