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Sin City
Sin City is a first. Other movies have tried to look like comic books, but they've all been laughably poxy, e.g. Dick Tracy. Sin City succeeds by evoking its comic roots and working well as a story-telling style too. I wouldn't have thought it possible, but Sin City is a masterpiece.
Sin City is an extremely violent, dark, fantasy comic-book thriller. If any film ever deserved an award for Best Director, it's this one - Frank Miller surely couldn't have imagined his comic books converting to celluloid as well as this. Rodriguez has created a new movie world, which must surely host more stories in the future. Sin City is a piece of cinematic history. I enjoyed this film: I think the average moviegoer will enjoy it: Testosterone Satisfaction Rating: Extreme violence, cars, oozing coolness and the breasts of Carla Gugino and Jaime King. That's all the boxes checked! To enjoy this film you should: tolerate exaggerated violence for the sake of style.
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Sin City contains several short stories that lightly cross, but are independent tales themselves.
With almost everything bar the actors computer-generated, all the scenes can be created exactly as the director
envisaged and thus
Sin City has a look and feel all of its own. Shot in moody black and white with occasional touches of colour to
highlight particular details, the style of the visuals is critical to the atmosphere. The movie is total comic-book,
the script is corny, everyone overacts, the cars hop about like rabbits and the violence is exaggerated to cartoon
proportions. People are shot twenty times and survive, limbs are dismembered and corpses are mutilated. Accuracy is
completely sacrificed for the overall effect, so if realism is at all important to you, stay well away. Sin City is a
love-it-or-hate-it movie, and I'm sure plenty of people will hate it because of its you-doity-rat gangster cheesiness.
Far more people will lap it up though, because it's so darned cool.
It's hard to judge the performances - everyone hams it up so much that Eastenders looks real by comparison - but it's
finely judged to match the environment. Take a look at the cast list at the top of this review - they must have cost a
fortune, and they must all have had complete trust in director Robert Rodriguez, as the actors would have been
delivering their ludicrous lines in front of a blue screen with no vision of how the finished product would look.
Without expert direction, Sin City could have been terrible. Quite a risk, but one that has paid off in spades.
A rasping Mickey Rourke, heavily made up, is entertaining as big ape-man Marv, Bruce Willis's angina-suffering cop
passes muster and everyone else fits the bill, however it's Rutger Hauer's short performance that I enjoyed most.
