Another Rodriguéz-Tarantino like figure

Rating: 9/10 (15 September 2005)

Another Rodriguéz-Tarantino like figure
What could we expect from a Tarantino film? What could we expect from a Rodriguéz film? And better still, what could we expect from a Rodriguéz film in which Tarantino was a (very) special guest director? The answer is simple: a great film. These two men way of making movie was enhanced by Frank Miller, who also sat on the director's chair and made Sin City one of the most interesting film in the season. The idea is just brilliant  bring to the big screen the old graphic novel Sin City, made by Miller. When we see the film, we have the feeling we're reading a superhero HQ, due to the black and white images, the great photograph and even the dialogue and facial expressions of the characters, abnormal sometimes and not connected to the ones we see in cinema. The story happens in the fictitious city of Basin City (or just Sin City), that is a place full of criminals, prostitutes, drunk people and all kinds of anti-heroes. The police is just one of the authorities of the place, that is also ruled by "The Girls", a group of beautiful and sexy women who wear small pieces of clothes and use high-tech guns to protect themselves. Their leader is Gail (Rosario Dawson), who commands also Miho (Devon Aoki), a kind of lady samurai who can kill anyone in just a second. In this complex game there's also a new and mysterious third force that will disturb the respect the two other powers have between them. In this reign of crime live eccentric beings shown in three stories. One of them is Marv (Mickey Rourke), who falls in love with Goldie (Jaime King), a prostitute. The other type is Hartigan (Bruce Willis), a policeman who has many problems in his personal life, but has in Nancy (Jessica Alba), the reason to live. The last, but not least, is Jackie Boy (Benício del Toro), a man who tries to renew the relationship with his ex-girlfriend Shellie (Brittany Murphy), a waitress of a bar that is visited by all these people. Shellie, however is with Dwight (Clive Owen), who will not accept Jackie Boy's attempts to get closer to his girl.