Black And White

It's movie review time again, and I actually was able to see a movie or two this past weekend, which helps. So, let's get started...

"SIN CITY"

In Basin City, anything can happen, and normally does. As it's citizens' lives intertwine, innocence is lost like a set of car keys.

Based on the series of graphic novels by the great Frank Miller, known mostly to the general public as the guy who wrote The Dark Knight Returns, where an aged Bruce Wayne loses it and starts killing criminals, Sin City was thought by many to be virtually impossible to bring to the big screen, much less in a two-hour format with an "R" rating. With the amount of violence, sex, and gore, it just couldn't be done.

Then, Miller himself signed on to direct. Robert Rodriguez (Spy Kids, The El Mariachi Trilogy) also signed on, and even got his friend Quentin Terrantino to help out. Then, enough actors to fill an A-List train (Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, Benecio Del Toro, Brittany Murphy, Mickey Rourke, Josh Hartnett, Clive Owen, Rosario Dawson, Jamie King). All of this, and this thing could either fail miserably or succeed with authority.

Thankfully, the latter is the case. With a visual style that makes you think that the graphic novel has come to life, performances that are about as real as art can get (Rourke has the performance of his CAREER), and storylines that keep you guessing, this film has the perfect mix of laughs and all-out darkness that keeps you interested for the solid couple of hours that this movie takes. All in all, I would see this again and pay full price, so on a scale of 1 to 10, I will give Sin City an 8.

Until next time, when we go all chick flick...

BB