Thehibikiew
Not even bad in a good way
TrueHello
Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
Tyreece Hulme
One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.
undeaddt
As much as drawing comics is a piece of art, that much the same stands for this movie. I was never much into comics, but this made me love them. The visuals, the colour blend, the acting, the actors, the story rotations... just beautiful
cinemajesty
Movie Review: "Sin City" (2005)A prologue scene of three minutes with Josh Hartnett as gentleman-killer on a rainy rooftop balcony tinted in stark-contrast Black & White HD cinematography of occasional striking color on the victim's red lips.Divided into three episodes from graphic novel writer and illustrator Frank Miller, published in 1991/1992, starting out with Bruce Willis as Detective Hardigan in a hard-boiled good, bad cop episode, rescuing 11-year-old Nancy Callahan from the clutches of psychopathic maniac of a senator's son, performed by actor Nick Castle. The graphic violence has been pushed to such an extent that even the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) demanded de-colorization of exit wounds in gun wounds and knife slashes, which diminishes the picture's color theme structure established from the prologue on. For that reason, the visual quality of "Sin City" varies.The execution of the production lets me feel the passion for source material by director Robert Rodriguez and co-director Frank Miller that searches in its visceral boldness few equals in U.S. American motion picture history.The best episode comes then right away from running time 13 minutes to 48 minutes with Mickey Rourke as the heavy-hitter Marv, who goes on Sin City rampage tour to avenge the death of a one-night-stand love affair, where the balance of neo film noir blacks and whites gets infusions of blood-splattering proportions, which finishes to my entertainment satisfactions. Episode three, starring Clive Owen as righteous cop Dwight, keeps heads and tension levels high in another storyline of revenge for another cop's abusive behavior against women. Dwight, portrayed by Clive Owen, stays cool in a magnificent shot interior car scene at night by guest director Quentin Tarantino at running time 68 minutes. The director makes full use of the digital color forces, ranging the wet window flashing from Blue over Green to Red, what brings the potential of "Sin City" to the screen, which has not been entirely making use of due to rating regulations and at times one sided directorial vision of just being an entertainment movie instead filling it also with art-house sophistication.Before "Sin City" slights back the Hardigan Story in an 8-year flash-foward rescuing 19-year-old table dancing Nancy Callahan, performed by Jessica Alba, again from the senator's son transformed into an abomination as Yellow Bastard, where the picture carries through by a father-daughter like chemistry between Bruce Willis and Jessica Alba.The HD cinematography also shot by director Robert Rodriguez comes along with a minimum of production design and further digital extensions especially in exterior wide shots, when the 120 minutes editorial keeps its pace to fulfilling finish of another staying cool Josh Hartnett performed gentleman-killer encounter in a hospital's elevator.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend
(Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)
marekerek
If you take the movie as a terrible low-budget comedy, you might not get bored to death. But this is not low-budget, this is not a comedy and this is, apparently, not terrible. The first chapter(The Yellow Bastard) was quite alright, then it all just got boring, tedious. All the chapters were like "the main (anti)hero has to kill somebody and it will probably end badly for him". But the final act was absolutely terrible. The killing scenes were comical(perhaps because of the black and white setting), I could not take it seriously for a minute.Positives:The acting and the soundtrack.With all the great actors in the movie, this film was a tremendous disappointment for me. 20 minutes after it ended, I cannot really recall much of the film.
Bazan Beat
This movie enters in the typical description of "style over substance". But what a style! the story is nothing over the top, but anyway, visually speaking its outstanding, specially if you consider that it was done in 2005, more than 10 years ago. Yeah, it have it's flaws and its very predictable but I think overall it is an acceptable film.
