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Great Action Movie

Advantages: The actors, storyline, length of the movie
Disadvantages: None

Well this has to be one of the best if not the best action movie i have seen, none others compare to it out there. The way the movie is planned out and the story line unfolds is gripping and the director has done a excellent job. There is not a lot of blood in this movie but its rated 18 because of the language and some scences of violence and the story line. The main characters play their roles superbly its one of Bruce Willis's best performances. ...
...and i couldnt stop watching it. I really enjoyed this and as soon as i saw it i went and bought it on DVD as soon as it was out it is now one of my all time favourites. If you like action movies then you must watch this as im certain you will enjoy it. ...

chillpill90 05.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sin City (DVD)

You're gonna love this, baby

Advantages: A great storyline, fantastic acting and a plethora of special features
Disadvantages: Some may find it a bit too violent

...Marley Shelton based on the Sin City short story, The Customer is Always Right. The soft wind instruments and dark setting establish the tone for the rest of the film. The audience hears beautiful dialogue brought to a close by a gunshot. This close relationship between beauty and death reflects the world in which the film takes place, a world where violence and socially unacceptable behaviour is the norm. . Sin City, with its film noir style is ...
...years. This may be because Sin City is unlike most well known comics. The main protagonists do not take on the role of traditional heroes, it can be argued that no character is particularly good but this does not stop them from being liked by the audience. One could argue that they fit Aristotle's criteria of a 'tragic hero', people not necessarily good, nor necessarily bad. Sin City is truer to its original medium the most adaptations to the point ...

shister_not 03.01.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Sin City (Collector's Edition) (DVD)

Avoid!!!!

Advantages: Visually stunning and the women are amazing!
Disadvantages: Acting,story,pretty much the whole thing

When I saw the trailer for The Spirit I couldn't wait to see it especially as I had enjoyed Sin City so much.As with Sin City visually this is stunning (as are the ladies of the film!) but that's were the positives end!!! Never have I watched a film and cared so little for the main character to the point that I wanted him to be killed by Samuel L Jackson's Octopuss (who is a thoroughly unlikeable character and seriously over acted by Jackson) I got ...

ASHY1977 23.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Spirit

The Flesh is Willing, but The Spirit is Weak

Advantages: It looks great.
Disadvantages: The direction, writing, performances and lack iof suspense.

The Spirit loves two things; Central City and beautiful women. A cop killed on the city’s mean streets, he has been reborn as a masked avenger who will do anything to sweep crime from the streets of his beloved city. To this end he stalks the criminal mastermind known as The Octopus and his army of henchmen, as they try to lay waste to the town. But along the way he comes across an array of women who either want to love him, seduce him or kill him… ...
...books of the past thirty years and his stamp is clearly seen on the visual style of “Sin City” (which he co-directed with Robert Rodriguez). He brings the same look to bear on his first solo outing as a director. So every shot looks like it’s been torn from the pages of a graphic novel. He often reduces the palette to blacks and reds, animating solid blocks of colour over the near black and white cinematography. He creates many striking images, such ...

afy9mab 01.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Spirit (DVD)

This isn't a movie. It's a method of torture.

Advantages: Seeing it once is enough
Disadvantages: You had to see it once

...This is a resubmission after the original was too 'overwhelming' for ciao, so here is the watered down version. This is the cinema viewing review and not the DVD review, and I hope to all that is good that you do not buy the DVD because this movie made me cry tears of regret. As mentioned before, if anyone buys this DVD for me, I would set it alight and send it back to them.* Frank Miller mucked up this movie. There, I’ve said it, this review should ...
...to watch a Barbie movie, the scariest movies ever made in my opinion, beating even The Shining. This movie is so bad, it makes me want drown in wallpaper paste whilst being force fed maggoty bread. I know Frank Miller as that amazing comic writer and creator of epics such as Sin City and 300. The ‘graphic novels’, as I should be calling them, have great artistic style and a great array of characters with engrossing storylines. The movie adaptations ...

0wnz0rz 06.05.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Spirit (DVD)