what's black and white and red/yellow all over? well what the hell do you think?

Rating: Null/10 (3 April 2005)

May contain spoilers. see for yourself.
Sin City. full of black and white. splashes of color. strip bars. strippers. crooks. cops. crooked cops. revenge. vengeance and gore. oh yea it's gory as hell. Sin City follows three characters over the time of basically one night or so. with exception of Willis and Rourke.
Sin City is amazing to look at, and wonderful to sit through. though it is gory and bloody, the acting and story lines plus characters waters it all down. the cast is wonderful and amazing. the story: the first full story we dive into is the story of a crook and thug that basically can't be killed. he is a Big for-headed, big mouthed, but love-able kinda guy. Marv,(Micky Rourke) we hear his over voice and from the start we wanna know more about him. we see him make love to Goldy, then a cannibal messed up serial killer( Elijah Wood) walks in and shoots her dead, which throws Marv into a world of hurt. cops then storm in on the dead broad and Marv and he realizes he's been set up, so now he goes on a killing spree on search for Goldies killer and the person who set him up. this story is known to Frank Miller fans as "Sin City." Marv runs into unforgettable characters, like a stripper who is actually Goldies twin sister. and a parole officer that lets him drug up and kill. Rourke is wonderful to watch. and Elijah is terrifying.
the next story that we come to look into , is known to Miller fans as " The big Fat Kill" it follows a photographer, Dwight ( Clive Owen) who loves his women. by day he hangs with a blonde little stripper ( Brittany Murphey) and at night he stalks "OLD TOWN" with a hot little Uzi token diva ( Rosario Dawsen.) we follow him when he tries to avenge the hurt a scummy cop , Jacky Boy ( Benecio Del Toro), Puts on the little blonde stripper. and when he follows Jacky Boy to "Old Town" and the strippers, who run the town, put some hurt on Jacky Boy it's up to Dwight to get rid of the bodies, but instead gets framed for a murder by the chief of police in Basin City who thinks Jacky Boy died for being loyal. the gold eye brute of a chief ( Micheal Clark Duncan) then puts out a hunt on Dwight and a certain head that Dwight is carrying. and when The Uzi Diva is kidnapped the story ends with a bang. Dwight encounters bad guys of his own, including Jackie Boy, and Irish phsycoes that love killing. Mentioning form this story goes to a great performance by Clive Owen, Brittany Murphy, Dawson. and good directing by Miller and QT.
The last and final story, actually starts the movie off, with a soon to be retired cop, Hartigan ( Bruce Willis)who saves a young girl ( Jessica Alba) from the rapist ,Junior ( Nick Stahl.) but he doesn't make it very far, and instead gets shot up and incarcerated for raping the young girl who falls in love with the corrupt cop for saving her life, because she knows the Truth but no one will listen. we then shoot to 8 years later, when Hartigan goes ona search for this young woman who is now a erotic stripper, and on his look he is being stocked by "The Yellow Bastard" (who is also played by Nick Stahl.) and through finding himself, Hartigan seduces the young girl(Alba) without knowing it, and he falls in love only to find himself defeated in the end. Great characters are involved in this story as in the rest. Bruuce Willis is great, and Nick Stahl is creepy and very lovable as an evil jerk.
The characters and stories are just toppings on the cake. the stuffing lies with the way the stories intertwine, the direction(which is outstanding and brilliant) and the artistic view the directors took to make this outstanding movie. This is the best Comic to Movie, movie ever. Frank Millers characters and drawings come alive on screen with the help of director , Robert Rodreguez. Robert, not only brings the liveliness to his filming and imagery that he does with how he wants the characters to be. each actor kind of just molds into their character and you don't believe your watching actors on the screen. unlike other comic movies, who take the characters and make new story lines to fit "real-life" this movie doesn't take a realistic point of view at all!
It is gory and may make you wanna puke in some shots. but the gore is not distasteful and the really gory stuff is done off screen. Rodreguez, Miller, Rourke, Owen, Willis my hat is off to you. you made a brilliant comic book into a wonderful delightful movie. 10/10