Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama, Comic Book, Psychos, Detectives, Prostitution, Surreal, Hostage, Cannibals, Tragedy, Gore, Revenge, Betrayal, Love, Police, Suspense, Serial Killer
Tagline: Hell of a way to end a partnership.
Plot: Robert Rodriguez ("Spy Kids," "Once Upon a Time in Mexico") and comic book icon Frank Miller co-direct "Sin City," based on the series of graphic novels created, written, and illustrated by Miller. "Sin City" is infested with criminals, crooked cops and sexy dames, some searching for vengeance, some for redemption and others, both. The film incorporates storylines from three of Miller's graphic novels including 'Sin City,' which launched the long-running, critically acclaimed series, as well as 'That Yellow Bastard' and 'The Big Fat Kill.' Rodriguez, along with Miller, translated these legendary stories from page to screen by remaining absolutely faithful to the look, feel and dialogue of the books. "Sin City" stars Bruce Willis as Hartigan, a cop with a bum ticker and a vow to protect stripper Nancy (Jessica Alba); Mickey Rourke as Marv, the outcast misanthrope on a mission to avenge the death of his one true love, Goldie (Jaime King), and Clive Owen as Dwight, the clandestine love of Shelley (Brittany Murphy), who spends his nights defending Gail (Rosario Dawson) and her Old Towne girls (Devon Aoki and Alexis Bledel) from Jackie Boy (Benicio Del Toro), a dirty cop with a penchant for
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 Visually, SIN CITY is as striking, as innovative, and as just plain beautiful as anything that ever came through a projector...Be prepared to shut your eyes through some of it, but the rest of it is a wild ride.  --Andrea Chase (Killer Movie Reviews)
Sin City is plenty bloody and downright disgusting. From faces being put through brick walls to meditated dismemberment, I can’t count the number of times I shouted “holy shit!” and/or grinned with sadistic pleasure. Only the strong survive Sin City, andthose who don’t, well, God help them. This film is not for the kiddies.  -- (Bloody-Disgusting.com)
Sin City is the most visually inventive comic book adaptation to make its way to a movie screen  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
Comic book noir. I love it! If you love your comic books violent, dirty, gritty, filled with badass characters either looking to kick ass or getting their asses kicked (or both), and your movies hyper-stylized, cool, rapid-fire and chockfull of over-the-top characterizations from every horny adolescent’s wildest and most masochistic imagination, you’ve come to the right place…i.e. SIN CITY is for you! 9/10--'JoBlo' (JoBlo.com)
Sin City, an exquisitely made, unbearably faddish movie that will strike joy into the hearts of all who revere amputation and apocalypse, opens with a swoony love scene culminating in a murder for the heck of it.--Ella Taylor
Everything about it is so reprehensible -- mindless gun worship, nonstop violence, graphic bloodshed, sado-misogyny, caricatures not characters, every verbal cliche in the (comic) book. I'm ashamed of myself for enjoying it like hell.--Ron Weiskind (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Surprise! Sin City is a mega-violent, highly potent vial of noir crack. And judging from the riotous burst of applause at the end of our screening, one that's destined to be a Matrix-style mass-cult classic. --Eric Meyerson (FilmCritic.com)
The excessive, and arguably numbing, length of this adolescent stunt suggests that perhaps Rodriguez, who works in a sort of splendid Austin isolation, is suffering from a kind of cabin fever and would benefit from a bit of old-fashioned studio oversight. The real masters of noir certainly did. C+--Frank Swietek
If this isn't one of the best films of the year, it is going to be a great year. A--Eugene Novikov (FilmBlather)
It's a visualization of the pulp noir imagination, uncompromising and extreme. Yes, and brilliant.  --Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
Sin City is always moving on to the next thing, and despite surprisingly good work from its large cast (especially Rourke and Owen, who are both outstanding), the picture feels synthetic and artificial -- a postmodern take on film noir tricked out with all kinds of bells and whistles, but lacking a soul to call its own.  --Rene Rodriguez
"Sin City'' made me ask if my life would have been complete without seeing Bruce Willis rip a guy's genitals off. (Yes.)  --James Verniere
FROM the opening sequence, it's clear that "Sin City" - which co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller have not so much adapted as lovingly copied from Miller's acclaimed graphic novels - is unlike anything you've ever seen before.  --Lou Lumenick (New York Post)
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Frank Miller
Elektra, Comic Book Confidential, Sin City: The Premiere |
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 | Devon Aoki
2 Fast 2 Furious, DOA: Dead or Alive, D.E.B.S. |
 | Alexis Bledel
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Bride & Prejudice, Tuck Everlasting |
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John Debney
The Passion of the Christ, Bruce Almighty, Liar Liar |
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 | Graeme Revell
Pitch Black, From Dusk Till Dawn, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider |
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| This is as much a movie as it is a snuff film – there is no enjoyment on any level besides on the surface. D+ --Craig Younkin (Lee's Movie Info)
It's a badass black & white fingerbang that will blow you across theater seats; its only intention to bruise your worthless body...Or something like that... --B. Alan Orange (MovieWeb)
“Sin City” is violent, surprisingly humorous, sexy, innovative, provocative, visually stunning, relentlessly entertaining, and a movie that delivers something even the most jaded of moviegoers haven’t seen before. Gorgeous and gory, a graphic film noir taken to the nth level, “Sin City” is not just for devotees of Frank Miller. I’ve never read “Sin City” and it didn’t affect my viewing pleasure one iota. A--Rebecca Murray
This film has style but no grace. The acting is brilliant, but repulsive. It’s like a car wreck. We can’t take our eyes off it. You won’t either. But be warned.  --Eric Lurio
Just sit back, friend, and take it all in. In Sin City, the show never really starts, and never really ends. The show’s just always there, but you got here just in time for the really good parts. Just keep your eyes open and your head down, and try not to get caught in the spray of bullets and blood. --Brian McKay (eFilmCritic.com)
This is one of those movies where audiences sit through all of the end credits–not because they are hoping for a final bonus cookie, but because they are too overwhelmed from the entire experience to be able to even move for a few minutes afterwards. --Peter Sobczynski (eFilmCritic.com)
Yet it's such an implausible fantasy that there's no sense of suspense or peril, and it's far too long. 8/10--Susan Granger
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