Sin City is an amazing film to look at! It’s a black and white noir flick with dashes of color for emphasis. The style is a perfect fit for Rodriguez, a huge backer of digital filmmaking. You are experiencing the world of a comic book and the cast and crew sell it in full, not the easiest thing to do in an all green-screen production (right George Lucas?). Really for the first time ever you can feel the preparation and commitment on- and off-screen to match the look and feel of the source material and its characters. Bringing creator Frank Miller along as co-director was a great idea (Quentin Tarantino even joins in the fun for a hilarious dialogue scene between Owen and Del Toro).

I loved the cast (Rourke, Dawson, and Owen were my personal favorites) who breathed life into these half-naked, bullet-ridden, and bloody creatures. Make no mistake, Sin City is an extremely violent film. I cannot recommend the film to underagers and those that aren’t fans of violence, trust me here, there’s a LOT to stomach (the film probably only avoided an NC-17 or Unrated rating because of its over-the-top style). Regardless, this is my favorite movie of the year at this point, can’t wait for the DVD!

I saw this film at Cinemark’s Tinseltown 17 Theatres on Peach Street in Erie, PA.

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