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Sin City (2005)

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Reviews Counted: 230

Fresh: 177

Rotten:53

Average Rating: 7.4/10

Consensus: Visually groundbreaking and terrifically violent.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for sustained strong stylized violence, nudity and sexual content including dialogue

Runtime: 2 hrs 27 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Theatrical Release:Apr 1, 2005 Wide

Box Office: $73,995,242

Synopsis: Adapted from Frank Miller's graphic novels, SIN CITY is Robert Rodriguez's striking film noir infused with fantasy, taking place in a world where it is eternally nighttime and everything is... Adapted from Frank Miller's graphic novels, SIN CITY is Robert Rodriguez's striking film noir infused with fantasy, taking place in a world where it is eternally nighttime and everything is drenched in rain and violence. Using a unique combination of silvery black and white digital photography with occasional flashes of bright color for dazzling punctuation, Rodriguez employs green screen techniques and paints a backdrop around each scene, using Miller's co-direction as his cue to match the original setting as closely as possible. Three stories weave together, occasionally overlapping. With lines delivered flatly in the hard-boiled style of Raymond Chandler, these tales are about crime, love, loss, and being preternaturally tough. In the most caustically dramatic segment, Mickey Rourke plays the fearlessly lovestruck Marv, a trenchcoat-clad beast who falls in love with prostitute Goldie (Jaime King) only to find her murdered by a demonic cannibal (Elijah Wood). In another segment, Bruce Willis plays Hartigan, a rogue cop with a "bum ticker" whose goal in life is to save Nancy (Jessica Alba), an innocent stripper, from a murderous rapist (Nick Stahl). The third segment stars Clive Owen as a detective caught between murdered cop Jackie Boy (Benicio Del Toro) and a slew of lethally dangerous vixens lead by Gail (Rosario Dawson). With blood spurting white, yellow, and yes even red; a roster of hot actors that goes on and on; and sound editing that makes you feel like you're the one being punched in the face, SIN CITY is a gift for fans of Miller's art, loaded with style and grit. [More]

Starring: Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson

Starring: Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Jaime King, Frank Miller, Benicio Del Toro, Clive Owen, Brittany Murphy, Nick Stahl, Alexis Bledel, Devon Aoki, Elijah Wood, Michael Clarke Duncan, Carla Gugino, Michael Madsen, Josh Hartnett, Arie Verveen

Director: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez

Director: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez
Screenwriter: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez
Producer: Elizabeth Avellan, Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez
Composer: John Debney, Graeme Revell, Robert Rodriguez
Studio: Dimension Films

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  • Frank Miller's Sin City
  • Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark. Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home. Crooked cops. Sexy dames. Desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge. Others lust after redemption. And then there are those hoping for a little of both. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care. Their stories -- shocking, suspenseful and searing -- come to the fore in a new motion picture from co-directors Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez, and special guest director Quentin Tarantino.
  • Source: Buena Vista Home Entertainment.
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    Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
    04/29/09
    Felix Vasquez Jr.
    Cinema Crazed

    "Sin City" is a high contrast tour de force cinematic adaptation of Frank Miller's hugely popular and wickedly grotesque graphic novel homage to the hard-boiled style of Dashell Hammett and Mickey Spillane.

    Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
    04/18/09
    Cole Smithey
    ColeSmithey.com

    A Ground-Breaking Piece of Film-Noir Fantasy.

    Full Review Source: Cinefantastique | comment Comment
    04/17/09
    Steve Biodrowski
    Cinefantastique

    ...a gleaming pop revelation, a completely realized vision...

    Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
    10/31/07
    Rob Gonsalves
    eFilmCritic.com

    Eager to blaze trails for desktop moviemaking, what did these artists do? Throw fuel on the fires of viewers' basest appetites.

    Full Review Source: Looking Closer | comment Comment
    09/07/07
    Jeffrey Overstreet
    Looking Closer

    While the book succeeded in pushing the boundaries of its medium, the film merely feels like a triumph of technology.

    Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
    08/16/07
    Trevor Johnston
    Time Out New York

    About as close to geek heaven as a film adaptation has ever been.

    Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | comment Comment
    07/14/07
    Joe Lozito
    Big Picture Big Sound

    A worthwhile piece of eye candy.

    Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
    04/18/07
    J. R. Jones
    Chicago Reader
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    For those who revel in this kind of adrenaline rush spectator sport, let the games begin.

    Full Review Source: Long Island Press | comment Comment
    03/28/07
    Prairie Miller
    Long Island Press

    For all its visual razzle-dazzle and enjoyably bad-ass attitude, there's something curiously empty about Sin City.

    Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment 1 Comment
    03/01/07
    Ethan Alter
    Film Journal International

    The world Miller and Rodriguez have created is so bleak and nasty it's difficult to see what lasting value any sort of redemption could have here.

    Full Review Source: Christianity Today | comment Comment
    10/11/06
    Peter T. Chattaway
    Christianity Today

    My own trajectory while watching Sin City--excited, bored, offended...back to bored...roll credits

    Full Review Source: Perihelion Journal | comment 1 Comment
    09/20/06
    Jay Antani
    Perihelion Journal

    Immensely likable and ultimately cool.

    Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
    05/26/06
    Jeffrey M. Anderson
    Combustible Celluloid

    If Raymond Chandler and Daffy Duck could have produced a child, Sin City would be their baby.

    Full Review Source: New York Magazine | comment Comment
    05/12/06
    Ken Tucker
    New York Magazine
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    For the guys it’s Rodriguez’s best film by far and a treat for fans of good-looking girls in black-and-white, of classic film noir and of imaginative ultra-violence.

    Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
    01/07/06
    Kim Newman
    Empire Magazine

    It is bare, and bold, and necessary.

    Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
    12/06/05
    Greg Wilson
    Film Threat

    An instant movie classic.

    Full Review Source: 3BlackChicks Review | comment Comment
    12/06/05
    Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel
    3BlackChicks Review

    What an electric cast!

    Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
    12/06/05
    KJ Doughton
    Film Threat

    Su verdadera fuerza radica en una historia que refleja el grado de degradación social, espiritual y emocional al que podemos llegar los habitantes de las grandes ciudades.

    Full Review Source: Moviola | comment Comment
    11/25/05
    Jorge Avila Andrade
    Moviola

    Its creators invent a queasily intoxicating new world.

    Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
    09/26/05
    Keith Phipps
    AV Club
     
     
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