I saw Sin City
months ago and haven’t
written it up because there’s just not that much to say, except that
it’s pseudo
hard-boiled macho bullshit. There’s
violence in the service of the story and violence for the sake of
violence… and
then there’s violence just to be gross, which is what we have here. I ain’t squeamish, but this is just uncalled
for.
The vaunted filming technique was basically animation.
If I want a graphic novel, I’ll buy a damn
graphic novel. Cinema is an art form; it
shouldn’t be a slavish imitation of what’s on the printed page.
The only possible redemption for this movie –
and I can’t
believe I’m writing these words – is if it gets Mickey Rourke more work. He’s about the only good thing in it.
I’ll leave the last words to Premiere’s Libby Gelman-Waxner:
“There are
multiple story lines, which allows the movie to
hire a whole bunch of stars; it’s like one of those old musical
cavalcades
where each MGM heavyweight would get a number, only in
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