Sin City [2005] | ![Sin City [2005]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51884VYZFVL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Directors: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez
Actors: Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  135 reviews
Sales Rank: 3891
Format: Black & White, Colour, Dubbed, Pal, Widescreen
Languages: English (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Italian (Dubbed)
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 119 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 8717418047931
ASIN: B0009I6UYS
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Release Date: September 26, 2005
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Brutal and breathtaking, Sin City is Robert Rodriguez's stunningly realized vision of Frank Miller's pulpy comic books. In the first of three separate but loosely related stories, Marv (Mickey Rourke in heavy makeup) tries to track down the killers of a woman who ended up dead in his bed. In the second story, Dwight's (Clive Owen) attempt to defend a woman from a brutal abuser goes horribly wrong, and threatens to destroy the uneasy truce among the police, the mob, and the women of Old Town. Finally, an aging cop on his last day on the job (Bruce Willis) rescues a young girl from a kidnapper, but is himself thrown in jail. Years later, he has a chance to save her again. Based on three of Miller's immensely popular and immensely gritty books (The Hard Goodbye, The Big Fat Kill, and That Yellow Bastard), Sin City is unquestionably the most faithful comic-book-based movie ever made. Each shot looks like a panel from its source material, and director Rodriguez (who refers to it as a "translation" rather than an adaptation) resigned from the Directors Guild so that Miller could share a directing credit. Like the books, it's almost entirely in stark black and white with some occasional bursts of color (a woman's red lips, a villain's yellow face). The backgrounds are entirely digitally generated, yet not self-consciously so, and perfectly capture Miller's gritty cityscape. And though most of Miller's copious nudity is absent, the violence is unrelentingly present. That may be the biggest obstacle to viewers who aren't already fans of the books and who may have been turned off by Kill Bill (whose director, Quentin Tarantino, helmed one scene of Sin City). In addition, it's a bleak, desperate world in which the heroes are killers, corruption rules, and the women are almost all prostitutes or strippers. But Miller's stories are riveting, and the huge cast--which also includes Jessica Alba, Jaime King, Brittany Murphy, Rosario Dawson, Benicio Del Toro, Elijah Wood, Nick Stahl, Michael Clarke Duncan, Devin Aoki, Carla Gugino, and Josh Hartnett--is just about perfect. (Only Bruce Willis and Michael Madsen, while very well-suited to their roles, seem hard to separate from their established screen personas.) In what Rodriguez hopes is the first of a series, Sin City is a spectacular achievement. --David Horiuchi, Amazon.com
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 Ka-pow classic October 30, 2008
Welsh Dragon (BC, Canada)
I wasn't sure what to expect considering I hadn't read the comics. I was impressed. This is a superb addition to the film noir tradition. It's modern take on the Raymond Chandler's Phillip Marlowe story. Yes, it is violent and yes it's sexist in terms of interpretation of women, but it's accurate translation of what you see in the comic books. I think it works well as a mix of animation and live action, better than 300. If it was fully animated or full live action then the film would have ended up being a pastiche. As it is, the casting, especially of Bruce Willis, Clive Owen and Mickey Rourke among the men is great. Some of the women are good too.
If you can accept the violence, I would thoroughly recommend it.
FASCINATING July 14, 2008
Lou Almighty
Wow! What a tour-de-force! Very stylistic and very well done! An excellent comic book adaption that couldn't have been made any better. Easily Rodriguez' best film so far.
 enjoyable comic book fluff June 6, 2008
martin thomas (england)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
return to form for robert rodreiguez after the awful spy kids trilogy and the even worser once upon a time in mexico,this also offers a return to form for mickey roark who shines in this movie.
Gloriously grim, but not perfect. April 26, 2008
DangermouseZilla (Doncaster, Yorkshire, UK.)
This film has its problems, but it has some pretty brilliant aspects too...
The mix of eras in the styles (sometimes seems like a contemporary setting, sometimes dystopian future, all mixed with a 50's feel) help give this film a timeless quality. Show it in 40 years time and it won't have dated.
The men are all tough-guys, and the women are mainly prostitutes - but they aren't subservient. It's the women where the power ultimately lies.
The film looks great with the digitally created backgrounds. It's not as visually impressive as `Casshern' (where all the backgrounds were created digitally) but it isn't meant to be - the backgrounds are bleak and gritty, they portray the depression of a City gone to social ruin.
A lot of work has gone into giving the characters depth. The narrative is straight from them, we are able to see the city through their eyes, we hear their thoughts, we begin to understand their philosophy. This really worked for Hartigan (Bruce Willis), his story was compelling and poignant. But for the others - they were interesting to watch, but I felt little for the characters involved.
In a nutshell: the interweaving of several stories a-la `Pulp Fiction' isn't as seamless as it could be, it feels a bit disjointed but it does show how everyone is caught up in the web of corruption which binds the city together. The message and the direction are handled well; overly stylistic films can sometimes flop - but in this case it works, and is perhaps the only way to pull off a translation from graphic novel to film. I can't help but think that the film took too much on, although it looks fantastic on screen - I couldn't absorb myself in all the stories. The characters involved seemed too shallow to really care about.
I'd give this 3.5 stars, but I can't. I'm dithering between 3 and 4 stars, but the creative energy which has gone into this film has tipped the balance to a four.
A Modern Masterpiece? February 29, 2008
Garry Williams (London (Enfield))
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What is most surprising is how many reviewers have missed the point of the film; decrying its violence, depiction of the female characters and even the narrative. Firstly, I am no fan of graphic novels, nor even Robert Rodriguez (Dusk Till Dawn is nothing more than slightly enjoyable popcorm trash) but Sin City is a highly inventive and original film which excellently creates a darkly dystopian world, a thorough inversion of the American dream; where religion and authority are inherently corrupt, where murderers are both heroes and villains and where whores can be angels. Make no mistake, it is an unflincingly violent film. However, very little of it is graphic - Rodriguez opts for a highly stylised depiction of violence - much like the showdown in the house of the blue leaves in Kill Bill - the violence is hyper-real, it's so frequent and extreme to make it unreal, unbelieveable - and this is the point. This is not to say that we become desensitised to it, it's that it's never meant to be real and genuine. The digitalised backgrounds utilised by the director to create the mise-en-scene of a graphic novel serve to reinforce this and the cinematography excellently exploits the film noir conventions whilst making it inherently modern and visceral. Moreover, the film is more than a disjointed montage of loosely connected stories and blunt action. The film deals with serious issues of the nature of evil and corruption, justice and morality, love and revenge - the characters act rather than talk and discuss (the verbose hencemen of Rourke are a superb example of over-intellectualisation). Yes the female characters are uniformly whores, strippers or victims - but Miller and Rodriguez imbue them with a sense of rightuousness and power - they lack the weaknesses that undermine many of the male characters - though Rourke, Willis and even Clive Owen all make excellent noirish anti-heroes. Essentially, yes, it is an action film, but like the work of Tarantino and even, dare I say Kurosawa, the action and violence is highly stylised. The characters, sympathetic and unsympathetic, cliched and original by turns are nevertheless engaging and intricate, prompting more questions than answers. Surely, this is what good film noir is meant to do, and rarely have directors in the modern era been able to evoke this quite so effectively whilst also making it new and modern - a good example of schema plus variation resulting in an original film which is always going to divide audiences.
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