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Sin City (2005)

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Reviews Counted:232

Fresh:180

Rotten:52

Average Rating:7.4/10

Consensus: Visually groundbreaking and terrifically violent.

Rated: 18 [See Full Rating] for sustained strong stylized violence, nudity and sexual content including dialogue

Runtime: 2 hrs 27 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Theatrical Release:03-06-2005

Synopsis: Adapted from Frank Miller's graphic novels, SIN CITY is Robert Rodriguez's striking film noir infused with fantasy, taking place in a world where it is eternally nighttime and everything is... Adapted from Frank Miller's graphic novels, SIN CITY is Robert Rodriguez's striking film noir infused with fantasy, taking place in a world where it is eternally nighttime and everything is drenched in rain and violence. Using a unique combination of silvery black and white digital photography with occasional flashes of bright color for dazzling punctuation, Rodriguez employs green screen techniques and paints a backdrop around each scene, using Miller's co-direction as his cue to match the original setting as closely as possible. Three stories weave together, occasionally overlapping. With lines delivered flatly in the hard-boiled style of Raymond Chandler, these tales are about crime, love, loss, and being preternaturally tough. In the most caustically dramatic segment, Mickey Rourke plays the fearlessly lovestruck Marv, a trenchcoat-clad beast who falls in love with prostitute Goldie (Jaime King) only to find her murdered by a demonic cannibal (Elijah Wood). In another segment, Bruce Willis plays Hartigan, a rogue cop with a "bum ticker" whose goal in life is to save Nancy (Jessica Alba), an innocent stripper, from a murderous rapist (Nick Stahl). The third segment stars Clive Owen as a detective caught between murdered cop Jackie Boy (Benicio Del Toro) and a slew of lethally dangerous vixens lead by Gail (Rosario Dawson). With blood spurting white, yellow, and yes even red; a roster of hot actors that goes on and on; and sound editing that makes you feel like you're the one being punched in the face, SIN CITY is a gift for fans of Miller's art, loaded with style and grit. [More]

Starring: Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson

Starring: Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Jaime King, Frank Miller, Benicio Del Toro, Clive Owen, Brittany Murphy, Nick Stahl, Alexis Bledel, Devon Aoki, Elijah Wood, Michael Clarke Duncan, Carla Gugino, Michael Madsen, Josh Hartnett, Arie Verveen

Director: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez

Director: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez
Screenwriter: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez
Producer: Elizabeth Avellan, Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez
Composer: John Debney, Graeme Revell, Robert Rodriguez
Studio: Dimension Films

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For the guys it’s Rodriguez’s best film by far and a treat for fans of good-looking girls in black-and-white, of classic film noir and of imaginative ultra-violence.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
01/07/06
Kim Newman
Kim Newman
Empire Magazine
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Time was when movie-makers, even laws-unto- themselves such as Sam Peckinpah, could be trusted to examine the consequences of living every moment in mortal danger: violence meant something more to them than simple connoisseurship.

Full Review Source: Independent | comment Comment
06/03/05
Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn
Independent

The look of it remains exceptional, a high-contrast monochrome showcase of sheeting rain, shattering glass and white-on-black silhouettes, with occasional motifs picked out in vivid colour.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/02/05
Ben Walters
Ben Walters
Time Out
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Unlike anything else you’ll see at the cinema this year.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
06/02/05
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

It’s violent, it’s sexist, it’s clichéd and it’s trashy. And for once those are all plus-points.

Full Review Source: FilmFocus | comment Comment
05/30/05
Joe Utichi
Joe Utichi
FilmFocus

[A] fiercely original crime anthology that hits right between the eyes with a striking blend of old-school noir and newfangled comicbook visuals.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
05/24/05
Stella Papamichael
Stella Papamichael
BBC
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Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Future Movies UK | comment Comment
05/06/05
Michelle Thomas
Michelle Thomas
Future Movies UK

Looks absolutely amazing, but it remains an exercise in style over substance that never gets beneath our skin.

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
04/21/05
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Hot chicks, big guns, bad ass bruisers, what more could you ask for?

Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
04/29/09
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

"Sin City" is a high contrast tour de force cinematic adaptation of Frank Miller's hugely popular and wickedly grotesque graphic novel homage to the hard-boiled style of Dashell Hammett and Mickey Spillane.

Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
04/18/09
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

A Ground-Breaking Piece of Film-Noir Fantasy.

Full Review Source: Cinefantastique | comment Comment
04/17/09
Steve Biodrowski
Steve Biodrowski
Cinefantastique

...a gleaming pop revelation, a completely realized vision...

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
10/31/07
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

Eager to blaze trails for desktop moviemaking, what did these artists do? Throw fuel on the fires of viewers' basest appetites.

Full Review Source: Looking Closer | comment Comment
09/07/07
Jeffrey Overstreet
Jeffrey Overstreet
Looking Closer

While the book succeeded in pushing the boundaries of its medium, the film merely feels like a triumph of technology.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
08/16/07
Trevor Johnston
Trevor Johnston
Time Out New York

About as close to geek heaven as a film adaptation has ever been.

Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | comment Comment
07/14/07
Joe Lozito
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound

A worthwhile piece of eye candy.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
04/18/07
J. R. Jones
J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader

For those who revel in this kind of adrenaline rush spectator sport, let the games begin.

Full Review Source: Long Island Press | comment Comment
03/28/07
Prairie Miller
Prairie Miller
Long Island Press

For all its visual razzle-dazzle and enjoyably bad-ass attitude, there's something curiously empty about Sin City.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment 1 Comment
03/01/07
Ethan Alter
Ethan Alter
Film Journal International

The world Miller and Rodriguez have created is so bleak and nasty it's difficult to see what lasting value any sort of redemption could have here.

Full Review Source: Christianity Today | comment Comment
10/11/06
Peter T. Chattaway
Peter T. Chattaway
Christianity Today

My own trajectory while watching Sin City--excited, bored, offended...back to bored...roll credits

Full Review Source: Perihelion Journal | comment 3 Comments
09/20/06
Jay Antani
Jay Antani
Perihelion Journal
 
 
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