Sin City review
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Robert Rodriguez Frank Miller |
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ratbag's review
"Sin City" is a tantalising, stylish noir, where the world of Frank Miller's comic strips leaps out from their pages and become almost tangible.
Featuring huge movie stars in bigger than life roles, such as Mickey Rourke's square-jawed Chesty Bonds anti-hero, Rosario Dawson's Uzi-wielding valkyrie woman, Jaime King's fatal femme-fatale Goldie/Wendy, and Devon Aoki's cold, sword-mistress Miho. No one channels pain and suffering as well as Bruce Willis' die-hard pain-riddled ex-cop. Somehow, Jessica Alba seems strangely out of place and contemporary in this setting, as a soft tough-cookie.
The dialogue is deliciously hard-boiled, and cheesily humorous. The violence is stupendously stylish and so over-the-top that only the characters in the film would feel it, and not the audience.
Rodriguez proves that art and entertainment need not be exclusive to each other, and that entertainment need not to be mindless. With a clever circular narrative, highly visual style and interesting characters, "Sin City" proves to be a very good film, worthy of recommendation. However, judgemental, prudish and morally sensitive individuals might want to watch something a little lighter ... after all, it IS "Sin City"!
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