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Production Year: 2005 - Action/Adventure - Director: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring:Jessica Alba, Benicio Del Toro, Brittany Murphy, Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, Elijah Wood more

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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 night time and...
more...everything is drenched in rain and violence. Using a unique combination of silvery black and white digital photography with occasional flashes of bright colour 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 love struck Marv, a trench coat-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.

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A review by silverline9 on Sin City DVD
January 6th, 2008

Author's product rating: Sin City DVD - rated by silverline9

Did you enjoy it?	Loved it
Story	Outstanding
Characters / Performances	Good
Special Effects	Outstanding
Soundtrack	Average

Advantages:	specail effects
Disadvantages:	little too long

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

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Try to imagine every film noir you have ever seen, now add a splash of Hong Kong style action, top up with anime graphics and finally dose liberally with cynicism. Got that? Good cause you're only halfway there! This is one of those movies which comes as a complete shock to the system. Its so simple on the surface, and not to mention very sexist, that it cannot possibly work, yet it does. Almost impossible to describe if you have not seen the Frank Miller graphic novels. Three simple stories told with panache and more than a little male fantasy and you have the most unique major movie release of the past few years. An all star cast serves up some prime cuts of pure forties crime thillers mixed with modern cynicism and seventies anti hero ethics. Full marks all round, even an unrecognisable Mickey Rourke, only the cardboard cut out "babes" are a disappointment. Otherwise a truly modern classic. You must see this movie!

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How does it compare to similar films?	Outstanding
How does it compare to others by the same director?	Good
Value for Money	Excellent
What format are you reviewing?	DVD

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