I’ve always liked film noir. Their raw and unsweetened portrayal of reality strike me as brutally honest and true. I also used to like (I wonder if I still do) comic books or graphic novels as comic book fans prefer to call them. They provide you with the words as books do and the images as movies do while still leaving something to your own imagination. Put the two together and you get Sin City, a tour into a city that’s about as dark as it can get: Kidnapping, rape, torture, mutilation, murder, cannibalism, corruption… You name it, it’s got it. And it’s not just the bad guys doing those things. Practically everything is over the top: the action, the blood, the gore, the dialog, even the narration, that you can’t help but feel juvenile glee especially when the bad guys get it. It is at various points suspenseful, exhilerating, depressing, amusing, even heart-warming. A twist of Tarantino and heaps of Rodriguez and Miller. It’s great! Go watch it!
Rating: 5/5