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Sin City
Movie Stats & Links |
| Starring: |
Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke,
Clive Owen, Rosario Dawson, Brittany Murphy, Jessica Alba |
| MPAA Rated: |
R |
| Released By: |
Dimension Films |
| Web Site: |
www.sincitythemovie.com |
| Kiddie Movie: |
I'd suggest a mature audience only. |
| Date Movie: |
Read the opening
of the review. |
| Gratuitous Sex: |
Just enough and
not graphic. |
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Violence: |
Umm, yea. |
| Action: |
Umm, yea. |
| Laughs: |
A chuckle or two. |
| Memorable
Scene: |
Lot’s, but I
really got a chuckle from the talking severed head of the dead
cop. |
| Memorable
Quote: |
Too many good
cheesy lines for me to remember. |
| Directed By: |
Frank Miller,
Robert Rodrigues, Quentin Tarantino |
| Produced By: |
Elizabeth Avellan, Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez |
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Sin City
A Movie Review |
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MPAA Rated - R |
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It's 2:04 Long |
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| A Review by |
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Stu Gotz |
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A warning to those people who are thinking about bringing
a date to see this movie:
THINK TWICE!!!
If your cuddly-duddley is the kind of person who meets
you at the comic book store every Thursday to check out the
latest, then this movie is a safe move. If, however, your
squeeze’s NetFlix queue looks something like this:
Being Julia
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Maria Full of Grace
... you get the idea,
and they’ve been bugging you to take them to go see the
latest wishy-washy Kevin Costner flick, DO NOT MAKE THIS A
DATE MOVIE!!!
You’ve been warned.
Sin City is a series of vignettes (short stories) that
interweave and come full circle in the end (as all good
graphic novels and soap operas should). We begin with Josh
Hartnett as the lady contract killer with a fetish to share
a smoke before the deed is done. From there we turn to Bruce
Willis as Hartigan, the good hearted retiring cop betrayed
by his sell out partner. The fugley Mickey Rorke as Marv
dons make-up look that makes his real everyday bad look seem
good. Underneath the ugly ass-kicking goon exterior of Marv
is a character with a heart of gold. He avenges the death of
a prostitute which provides the movie with several nice nude
scenes. Not necessarily for the nudity reasons, but I
enjoyed this story the best, maybe because it had cute
little Elijah Wood and a freaky, stealth, kung-fu cannibal.
What more could you ask for?
Does all this sound like one cliché after another? Well
it all is, and there is more to come because in the next
vignette the ever so sexy Brittney Murphy plays a barmaid in
an abusive relationship with her dirty cop boyfriend. For
the feminists out there, don’t worry. Brittney is avenged by
Clive Owen and a band of gun touting prostitutes. At this
point the movie begins to come around on its self as we
discover that the presumed dead Officer Hartigan is alive
and still has a score to settle by way of disposing of a
putrid smelling yellow skinned child molester. Lastly, we
can close our circle with the quick kill, and puff of
cigarette smoke, of a prostitute that betrayed her sisters.
Sin City is perhaps the finest screen adaptation of a
graphic novel that I have ever seen. What makes this movie
so great is that the it appears that the producers learned
from the mistakes made in the terrible adaptations of
Catwoman, Elektra, and Judge Dread (just to name a few
flops). Instead of trying to write a script, it seems that
the producers took an actual graphic novel and said "Here is
your script. Go shoot it." And shoot it they did. Cheesy
dialog, overblown caricatures of people, lots of great
violence, and a teasing sexiness with just the right amount
of nudity to keep your coat in your lap. It is all these
elements put together that makes Sin City a must see for the
"comic book couple." 4 stars out of 5 and I'm Stu Gotz. 'Nuff
said!
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