visually amazing, tough and original

Rating: 8/10 (24 October 2005)

'Sin City' is not a good proposition for folks who dislike violence on screen. Tarantino contributed to this film much more than by directing one scene and having his name recorded on the screen as co-director. In fact 'Sin City' is a direct descendant of the popular culture trend open by 'Pulp Fiction' and the style reminds and gets closer in some moments to 'Kill Bill'. Rober Rodriguez may be the director, but the spirit of Tarantino co-directs all along the way.
'Sin City' takes the comics inspired movie a step ahead by taking the graphics of the two-colored comics books and translating them into scree visuals. The result is amazing. It also takes the comics characters and puts them on screen, as comics characters are - sketchy and bi-dimensional, forms without soul, with no pretension of character building or evolution. There is no psychological depth in a two-dimensional cartoon.
Folks may argue about the amount of violence of all kinds, and question if they are really needed. Well, there are different categories of comics, 'Sin City' tends to be in the rated category, and this is what the film director decided to do. Acting is actually here entering the cartoon character skin, and amazingly the only weaker performance seemed to me to be the one given by Willis, who tried to be more human than necessary.
Yes, of course, 'Sin City 2' is in the making, and there is talk about the third one.