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Let's pretend it's NOT shot like the black and white comic book for a second. What do we have? Absolutely nothing that Uwe Bowell or Paul W.S. Anderson themselves couldn't squeeze out their asses.
Thought it was cool at first, but after seeing it a second time it just felt gritty and violent for the sake of getting the obnoxious kids in the front row of the theater to exclaim "oh, fuck, you see that shit?" or "that was fucking tight!"
Elijah Wood's character was pretty cool, but he hardly gets enough screen time. Clive Owen was the coolest main character, but he has the shittiest story. And Jessica Alba's character is supposed to be naked the whole time! Jeeeeez.
Not a horror movie by any means but still this is one badass movie. Everything about this movie is awesome. The characters, plot, photography, style. The best part is how it is filmed just like the graphic novel black, white, and red.
What can I say? I was a HUGE fan of the graphic novels in my mid-teens, and this movie is an almost perfect rendition of 3 of my favorite Sin City stories. The cast is fantastic (aside from Jessica Alba -- willingness to do nude scenes or no, she isn't right at all for Nancy, in my very humble opinion). Very visual, visceral, exciting film!
Loved it the first time I saw it, but it doesn't hold up to well on repeated viewings. I get bored with it very quickly now. Marv's story is the only one that still manages to hold my attention.
I thought Sin City was awesome, one of its kind, original and kept the audience in full attention. I loved the black and white aspect and the action was amazing. thumbs up.. and for the first time Josh Hartnet wasnt a huge cry baby
Posted By: AshWilliams95 at 1:31am, December 24, 2008
I thought that sin city was just masterful.
Storyline: 3 different stories in one movie. the 1st story is about a deformed guy who is big and strong and he is on a mission to avenge a hooker that was killed. The 2nd story is about a guy protecting a slut town from a bad cop. The 3rd and final story is about a cop who tries to protect a stripper. 7/10
Acting: Bloody brilliant. Bruce willis, elijah wood and clive owen did a kick ass job. 10/10
Special Effects: Just mad ass! The black and white look through out the whole movie was mad and the blood being white was interesting too. The deaths looked realistic and the yellow bastard was as creepy as fuck. 10/10
Best Scene: Bruce willis kicking the yellow bastards ass. 10/10
Ending: Bruce willis shoots himself!!!!!:( 5/10
Overall the movie was absolutley awesome and it had some grindhouse gore which was nice, such as decapitations, limbs getting hack sawed and a scene with neck biting. I give this movie 10/10
This movie really wasn't that good. I liked the art style and stuff, but it seemed like it was being arty for the sake of being arty. It's entertaining enough, though.
Posted By: Guitarded at 11:24am, November 15, 2008
Fucking A!!! This movie was fucking amazing.
Posted By: gorehound62 at 11:03am, November 15, 2008
coolest movie in years. being a fan of frank miller, robert rodriguez and quentin tatantino, its like a gem to me. great preformances. watch for powers boothe in the beginning of the final segment. although very breif, its one of the highlights of the movie. mickey rourke is in top form, and benicio del toro is great as one of the many villains, jackie boy.
Posted By: Protecious at 4:23pm, September 30, 2008
visual masterpiece, well cast, directed greatly and very interesting stories make this film a wonderful treat
Posted By: thedescent08 at 6:01am, August 19, 2008
The art style and filmmaking are truly a masterpiece. The story itself is dull, lame, predictable, cliché, and in the end 100% forgettable.
I’ll start with the action. To be blunt, there is hardly any at all. When the action happens it is lame and uninspired. It reminded me of dumbed down action scenes from Spider-Man, but even that is too much of a complement.
So, with all the talking scenes and characterization scenes you’d expect the plot to be, you know, at least a plot. Oh, how wrong that assumption is. There is no plot. The mini stories that somehow are kind of a plot mixed together are generally boring, and entirely cliché. As if, you’ve seen these mini stories on cartoons before.
But it doesn’t even have the same level of fun, original cartoony feel. It’s more like a bad cartoon—like Tom and Jerry—that has grown up but never matured. It just feels . . . awkward and boring. Like a 40-year-old man doing something like a 5-year-old. It’s just lame.
This style of mature cartoony-fantasy has been NAILED in video games like Killer 7, which hone the originality and innocence of cartoons, but mix it with mean-spirited ultraviolence. Sin City simply doesn’t know how to do that in a way that isn’t boring and cliché.
The only reason this doesn’t get 1 or 2 skulls from me is because of the style. As I said, it’s truly a masterpiece in style. Too bad that style wasn’t used for something original and cliché-defining, instead of a lame Spider-Man wannabe with some dumbed-down blood to make it seem action packed.
