Everything and nothing

Rating: Null/10 (14 August 2011)

Robert Rodriguez's 'Sin City' brings to life Frank Millear's comic-book world: hard-boiled, stylised, sexy, ultra-violent, but utterly morally uninteresting. The film certainly succeeds aesthetically, and also manages to maintain a consistent tone better, say, than the 'Batman' films, where any attempt to assert a dark side inevitably runs up against the silliness of the concept. But it's also fare to say that when the protagonist changes (there are 3 separate stories here), you hardly even notice, so little is there that separates one part from the next. Ultimately, when everything is sin, that's as good as saying nothing is.