Review of Sin City

Sin City is stylish and professional. It's a game changer, this one. Visually, this film is just brilliant and the cinematography is miles high better than most and the cast is near-to-perfect chosen. Sin City is so different from other comic-book movies that it cannot be named in the same sentence as Spider-Man or others. It's sadistic, brutal, violent and unforgiving, something like a more perverted version of Eastern Promises. But don't let the violence part put you off. The blood is shown in either stark white or other colours but it's done it a stylish manner. Frankly speaking, the film's true artistic and cinematic touch is in all of Hartigan's sequences. The last 20-or-so minutes had me mesmerized.

From the great ensemble cast, Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, Brittany Murphy, Benicio del Toro and Powers Boothe played their characters to almost perfection, each having their great moments here and there and creating powerful and/or dominating personalities onscreen. From the others, both Rosario Dawson and Devon Aoki were fitting in their roles and I can't think of anyone else replacing them. Alexis Bledel as a prostitute was unconvincing at best and totally detached. Although her performance was just OK, Jaime King truly is a dame worth "killing for, worth dying for, worth going to Hell for!" And Jessica Alba was also quite OK and her chemistry with Bruce Willis was nowhere great or memorable.

All in all, definitely not for kids and definitely not while eating. Sin City packs solid punches and not only saws off your arms but hacks them to little, tiny pieces... OK, I'm gonna stop right here!

8.5/10