One word sums this movie up: Masterpiece! *****(out of five)

Rating: 10/10 (24 June 2005)

Kudos to directors Robert Rodriguez,Frank Miller and Quentin Tarantino for ''Sin City'' a landmark film. Its a landmark not only for the astounding cinematography (which mixes black and white and flashes of colour to sumptuous effect) but also Rodriguez's decision to bring the man behind the comic books on which this is based - Frank Miller- on board is throughly groundbreaking and gutsy. Rodriguez actually had to resign from the DGA to bring Miller on board as it was breaking their rules. But this decision well and throughly paid off and Miller's emphatic influence on the style of the movie is there to be seen. A third director-Rodriguez's buddy Quentin Tarantino- also came on board for a few days as a ''special guest director'. Tarantino directed one brilliant sequence with Clive Owen and Benicio Del Toro in a car on his own and also co-directed a few other scenes with Rodriguez and Miller.This is adapts Miller's books more faithfully than any movie based on something else before. And that is throughly what the genius that is Frank miller deserves. The film is quite simply a masterpiece and so far this is my MOVIE OF THE YEAR by a country mile and I really can't see it being topped. It ingeniously interweaves three of Miller's stories into one whole movie through a pormanteau structure similar to that of Tarantino's masterpiece ''Pulp Fiction''. The film is clever, fast-paced, exciting and sickeningly funny. The entire cast is superb but the standouts are Bruce Willis who excels as hard-boiled cop Hartigan, Nick Stahl who is terrifying as a deformed sadist known as ''Yello Bastard'' and comeback kid Mickey Rourke who is absolutely outstanding as violent thug with a heart of gold Marv.You simply cannot miss this film!