Review: Sin City
Dark, gritty, gruesome, and graphic are some good descriptions of ‘Sin City’. Tough, driven, fearless, classic describe the heroes while beautiful and gorgeous describe the dames that walk the streets in Basin City. ‘Sin City’ is everything I wanted in Film Noir movie. The tougher-than-life guys with a determined focus, revenge and protecting the ones that they love shot and hacked their way to their goals.
I’d give this film an 80%. I loved the story telling. The ‘tell it as it is’ dark voice-overs often with witty one-liners. A great example was Lucille, with her hand cut off and eaten in front of her, says as she embraces Marv that all she can think about is getting a smoke. Oh yeah, this film is gruesome. Limbs hacked off, blood spewed, axes, saws, knives just as common as guns and bombs. These guys know how to interrogate and torture. ‘Sin City’ is not for the faint of heart as it contains graphic violence and nudity.
Two grips keep this from being an excellent film. ‘Sin City’ is a collection of 3 stories. Different stories, different characters only the same city. I would have liked it if the stories were intertwined. Sure the characters made cameo’s in the other stories but I felt something was needed to tie it all together. They could have used location to tie it all together. Give Basin City, Old Town, and Roark’s farm more personality so when they say that took the dame to Roark’s farm, you’re already cringing at the gruesome events that will/already took place there. Secondly, I didn’t care for the second story too much. Clive wasn’t the tough guy as Marv and Hartigan were. He was emasculated by the stunning and deadly Miho. She was the one who saved him time after time and cut up the badies into pez-dispensers. Nevertheless, this is a good film, one I wouldn’t mind watching over and over again.