Amazing movie.

Rating: 10/10 (19 November 2006)

To hell with my earlier review. Sin City is one of the best movies of 2005.
Three dark, twisted, neo-noir stories of love, revenge, and duty spiraling through the shadowy back alleys and street corners of Sin City, the worst city you can imagine. First and foremost, the visual style: the visual style is stunning. Presenting the dark metropolis as a thick, oily chiaroscuro of black white that segues in dappled palettes of red, yellow, and blue, the movie perfectly captures the gritty film-noir mood of the old movies that Frank Miller so successfully emulated in the graphic novels. It's a fevered nightmare: a dreamlike image of hellish corruption and crime.
Filled to the brim with over-the-top violence, boobs, and blood, Sin City is the penultimate graphic novel adaptation. Each story is jam-packed with action and plenty of disturbing images that'll haunt your mind long after you've seen them. While not perfect, (corny dialog and occasional slow parts,) Sin City remains the single most faithful comic book adaptation, and one of the most entertaining.