The Review: Sin City

Rating: 8/10 (8 January 2008)

Sin City is based on the Graphic novel by Frank Miller and directed masterfully by Robert Rodriguez. The film twists different story lines together all in this horribly sin infested city where everything is full of the nastiest things imaginable.
The film is, as I said, masterfully directed, but everything else doesn't live up to those standards. The film suffers from violence that goes extremely violent when it doesn't need to to make it's point, and the same goes for the sexual themes. The "Sin" in "Sin City" is just a tad bit over the top (that being said, it's over the top for an over the top movie). Also the dialog is reminiscent of old crime movies (kinda corny), but it works well for the movie...most of the time. Sometimes it feels right, sometimes it's very awkward.
The acting and just about everything else is good (though, the stories sometimes get too dark). Overall, it's it's over the top style mixed with either OVER over the top material or unfitting dialog that seems to pull this movie down from the ranks of being really great, but is still a good film.
Rating: *** (of 4)
Entertainment: **** (of 5)