Nancy Callahan, the love of my life...

Rating: 9/10 (1 April 2005)

Wow. That is my first reaction after seeing Sin City. This movie is, from start to finish, a stylized romance with everything that most movies shy away from, a museum of torture and depravity that relishes in its own seedy underbelly. Me and my friends occasionally have what we call "Sin Nights," nights out where we succumb to any sin we wish as long as it's legal and doesn't involve more than three different stores to find. Sin Night is a time when you have that extra cheeseburger, buy that book you've had your eye on, or finally try out that new ice cream spot. You do what you have to to fulfill an inner need, and in the end you feel happy and gleeful. SIn City was the movie equivalent of Sin Night, and how appropriate that name has become. It is violent, it is brutal, it shows you things most movies would come close to. Dismemberment, nudity, and torture; these are throwaway pieces of the film. And one of the best line's I've ever heard in a movie, "...Is that all you've got?" See this, trust me. If you let yourself indulge in the guilty pleasure of this moral vacuum, you'll have a blast.