Sin City

Based upon the graphic novels by Frank Miller, Sin City is a film noir mixed with some ridiculous fantasy elements. Sin City is a world where it's perpetually night time. Sin City is about three separate stories that occassionally intertwine.

One story is about Bruce Willis playing a detective who is trying to save Jessica Alba's life from a nasty disgusting yellow pervert who likes raping little girls. When the little 11 year old girl grows up, she develops into the beautiful Jessica Alba. The little girl falls in love with Willis after he saves her life. The pervert captures her again when Alba grows up. He says she's a little old for his tastes, but he's obsessed with raping her. Willis punches the hell out of him until he's nothing more than a bloody pulp. Bruce Willis and Jessica Alba?! Come on! That's just wrong. I guess Willis realizes this in the end, 'cuz he shoots his own brains out.

The second story is about a fugly tough dude who had sex with a hooker. He was so happy a gorgeous whore had sex with such an ugly guy like him that he believes she's like an angel. Unfortunately, someone kills her in the middle of the night and frames him. He vows to kill whoever did this to her. He finds some weird cannibal with superhuman powers played by Elijah Wood. I'm sorry to see that Elijah is now playing bad guy roles as freaks and geeks. We all loved him as Frodo in Lord of the Rings. We were disapointed when he played a panty sniffing pervert in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Now, he plays this strange cannibal in Sin City. Due to the round glasses he wore in the movie, he looked like Harry Potter. Except this Harry Potter uses his magic powers to eat you up. I can't believe Elijah went from a Hobbitt to a Gollum.

Anyway, this fugly guy finally manages to kill Elijah Wood and chops off his legs. He gets the guard dog to eat his bloody body. He chops off Elijah's head and gives it to the priest, who was behind all these brutal murders. The fugly dude tortures and terminates the evil priest.

The third story is about a guy who tries to stop a bastard from killing other people. He follows him to Old Town, where the hos rule the streets. The ladies of the night dispose of him by slicing the jerk up. Unfortunately, the bastard turns out to be a cop. The truce between the cops and the hookers is that the cops will leave them alone in Old Town unless someone breaks the truce. Killing a cop will break the truce. There's a squealer in the midst of them. The pimps find out and try to get the bastard's head to show to the cops. This way, the cops will kill the whores and the pimps will be in control once again. The main guy asks the prostitutes to give him a car with a hard top, a decent engine, and a large trunk to dispose of the bodies. The pimps intercept him. There's a big battle in the streets and the hookers prevail by shooting all the pimps from on top the buildings. Yeah, the working girls win!

This movie is very gritty, ugly, and dark. It's made in Frank Miller's comic book style. The movie is very original. The premise of the film is interesting. Unfortunately, it should have been left as a premise. I think it would have been better if it stayed as a comic book than to make it into a movie. I just didn't like it that much. It was hard to watch, because it was kinda boring except for the violent parts. Even the violent parts were hard to stomach because it was so gruesome. I think it was more violent than Kill Bill in some ways.

Every woman in Sin City is a hooker and every guy is a thug. The movie was kinda bizarre. Well, one obvious thing is that it's in black and white. --And red, for blood.

I like full color. It was stylish, but it wasn't my style. Everyone looked really ugly.

The good: Ultra-violent. Very gruesome fighting and torture scenes. Original and stylish.

The bad: Boring between the violent scenes. I got tired of all their dumb narrations. Shot in black and white and red. I like full color. Color would have made the dismemberments more graphic. Jessica Alba loves Bruce Willis in the movie.


Entertainment: 66
Violence: 92
Story: 61
Acting: 72. This was the hardest to rate. It has to be rated in two different ways. On one hand, the acting is cheesy, because it's based on a cheesy comic book. On the other hand, the acting is great if it's supposed to be just like the comic book.

Overall average: C, 72.