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Storyline
Four tales of crime adapted from Frank Millers popular comics, focusing around a muscular brute whos looking for the person responsible for the death of his beloved Goldie, a man fed up with Sin Citys corrupt law enforcement who takes the law into his own hands after a horrible mistake, a cop who risks his life to protect a girl from a deformed pedophile, and a hitman looking to make a little cash. |
Backdrops
The Director
Frank Miller
Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American comic book artist, writer and film director best known for his dark, film noir-style comic book stories and graphic novels Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City and 300. He also directed the film version of The Spirit, shared directing duties with Robert Rodriguez on Sin City and produced the film 300.
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User Reviews
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Early (Rough) Review: Too Man Sins For Me
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From June 4, 2006:
My coworker's son let me borrow this one. I gave Sin City a chance because it looked interesting and original, even though it's not generally my type of movie. I mean, I sometimes like gritty movies that explore the underbelly of humanity. Pulp Fiction is a favorite of mine, but then again, there's something a bit too cartoonish about all of the outlandish characters in PF.
Even though this film has been developed from a series of graphic novels (that's comic books with meaty stories, ducky), it's anything but strictly cartoonish. It's stylistic and gory and gritty and tough. It's very original, I'll give it that. And it's an intelligent movie.
But there were some flaws, mostly in the way it was directed. I think it was trying to balance stream of consciousness, given the noir narration of some of the characters, with premeditation in the way that each story was loosely interwoven. As such, I spent a good deal of time being confused and never really intrigued. I was confused by the presence of Josh Hartnett from the getgo. I had trouble keeping the character names straight and making the leap each time one of the chapters ended. Plus, I kept being distracted by things. For example, some of my thoughts were like, "Oh, I guess Bruce Willis isn't dead." And "look, a Gilmore girl is a hooker." And, "hey, that's the guy from 24." And "oh, Frodo's a cannibal."
On the other hand, I can see the appeal of this movie. It's different and its own beast. But, and don't hate me for saying this, I think the target audience of this movie is a bit more testosterone-laden than me. For the record, I don't like too many "chick flicks" either. I...
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reviewed by Pippin2010 (Filmaster.com) on the 24th of January 2010
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Fantastic Film.