Sin city is infested with criminals crooked cops & sexy dames: some searching for vengeance some for redemption and others both. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 09/01/2006 Starring: Bruce Willis Mickey Rourke Run time: 126 minutes Rating: R Director: Frank Miller
Brutal and breathtaking, Sin City is Robert Rodriguez's stunningly realized vision of Frank Miller's pulpy comic books. In the first of three separate but loosely related stories, Marv (Mickey Rourke in heavy makeup) tries to track down the killers of a woman who ended up dead in his bed. In the second story, Dwight's (Clive Owen) attempt to defend a woman from a brutal abuser goes horribly wrong, and threatens to destroy the uneasy truce among the police, the mob, and the women of Old Town. Finally, an aging cop on his last day on the job (Bruce Willis) rescues a young girl from a kidnapper, but is himself thrown in jail. Years later, he has a chance to save her again.

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Based on three of Miller's immensely popular and immensely gritty books (The Hard Goodbye, The Big Fat Kill, and That Yellow Bastard), Sin City is unquestionably the most faithful comic-book-based movie ever made. Each shot looks like a panel from its source material, and director Rodriguez (who refers to it as a "translation" rather than an adaptation) resigned from the Directors Guild so that Miller could share a directing credit. Like the books, it's almost entirely in stark black and white with some occasional bursts of color (a woman's red lips, a villain's yellow face). The backgrounds are entirely digitally generated, yet not self-consciously so, and perfectly capture Miller's gritty cityscape. And though most of Miller's copious nudity is absent, the violence is unrelentingly present. That may be the biggest obstacle to viewers who aren't already fans of the books and who may have been turned off by Kill Bill (whose director, Quentin Tarantino, helmed one scene of Sin City). In addition, it's a bleak, desperate world in which the heroes are killers, corruption rules, and the women are almost all prostitutes or strippers. But Miller's stories are riveting, and the huge cast--which also includes Jessica Alba, Jaime King, Brittany Murphy, Rosario Dawson, Benicio Del Toro, Elijah Wood, Nick Stahl, Michael Clarke Duncan, Devin Aoki, Carla Gugino, and Josh Hartnett--is just about perfect. (Only Bruce Willis and Michael Madsen, while very well-suited to their roles, seem hard to separate from their established screen personas.) In what Rodriguez hopes is the first of a series, Sin City is a spectacular achievement. --David Horiuchi

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Summary: Sin City
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Summary: One of the best modern movies
Comment: I love this movie--have seen it maybe 15 times already. Time to buy it!It is full of philosophy and action. It is never boring. The film noir style works perfectly for this genre (graphic novel) and the quality of acting, directing and writing is evident. There is also plenty of eye-candy for boys and girls alike. It is intensely creative. It is also extremely violent and perverse--not for the very young or those unused to extreme violence. I recently saw The Spirit, another film by Frank Miller and it cannot compare to Sin City. It is the very best of the genre.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: 4 stars out of 4
Comment: The Bottom Line:

This movie is most assuredly not for everyone, but if you appreciate this sort of thing you'll find a perfectly assembled movie that takes tropes from classic noir and fuses them with a modern, comic book sensability into an altogether new and brilliant creation.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Rockin' Sin City ! ! !
Comment: I can't believe how GOOD this movie is. Really I can't.

The color graphics are UNREAL.

Though the content is mature I HIGHLY RECOMMEND it. ESPECIALLY for the artistically inclined.

GO SIN CITY!!!

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Summary: Dark and grity classic
Comment: This movie took me by surprise. I new who Frank Miller was but had never really seen any of his work. However after watching this movie I feel that I have been missing out. There is a great story that unfolds through out the entire movie. Everyone of the different characters are rich and interesting. Needless to say this is not a kid friendly movie, but for those who are a little older and aren't to squeamish, then this is a movie that you may want to check out.

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