A huge disappointment. 'Sin City' comprises three stories set in the eponymous city, where the women are either exotic dancers, streetwalkers or gun-toting prostitutes, and the men are either tough guys, crooked cops or serial killers. It is a literal translation to the screen of Frank Miller's graphic novel. That means black and white visuals and voice-over narration to emphasise the noir pedigree. It also means unrelenting violence depicted with sadistic glee and dubious sexual politics (an 11-year old girl falls in love with an ageing Bruce Willis after he saves her life and on his release from prison, she, now 19, immediately makes a play for him - yuk!)
The filmmakers' stated aim was to make a film as faithful as possible to the graphic novel. If that were the case, they would have done better making an animated film. As it is, 'Sin City' the source material, on the evidence of this movie, is poorly written, with threadbare storylines and little to sustain interest beyond the gunplay and swordplay and Jessica Alba's rotating torso. It has none of the noirish atmosphere of Bogart's 'The Big Sleep', nor the too-cool style of 'Kill Bill', and in Mickey Rourke's Marv, a very pale imitation of 'Hellboy'.
Should appeal to testosterone-charged young males.
Rating: 3/10
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I enjoyed it.
- Adam Ng
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