Sin City (2005)
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 242
Fresh: 188 | Rotten: 54
Visually groundbreaking and terrifically violent, Sin City brings the dark world of Frank Miller's graphic novel to vivid life.
Average Rating: 7/10
Critic Reviews: 49
Fresh: 35 | Rotten: 14
Visually groundbreaking and terrifically violent, Sin City brings the dark world of Frank Miller's graphic novel to vivid life.
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The Eisner Award-winning comic series Sin City comes to life in this live-action feature adaptation from director Robert Rodriguez and creator Frank Miller. Interweaving multiple storylines from the series' history, this violent crime noir paints the picture of the ultimate town without pity through the eyes of its roughest characters. There's the street thug Marv (Mickey Rourke), whose desperate quest to find the killer of a prostitute named Goldie (Jaime King) will lead him to the foulest
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Jessica Alba
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Devon Aoki
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Alexis Bledel
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Powers Boothe
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Rosario Dawson
Gail -
Benicio Del Toro
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Michael Clarke Dunca...
Manute -
Carla Gugino
Lucille -
Josh Hartnett
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Rutger Hauer
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Jaime King
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Michael Madsen
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Brittany Murphy
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Clive Owen
Dwight -
Mickey Rourke
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Nick Stahl
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Bruce Willis
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Elijah Wood
Kevin -
Marley Shelton
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Frank Miller (II)
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Tommy Flanagan
Brian -
Rick Gomez
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All Critics (242) | Top Critics (49) | Fresh (188) | Rotten (54) | DVD (56)
With a huge, well-chosen cast and the blessing of Miller, who was on set as Rodriguez's co-director, Sin City is a gloriously stylized world unlike anything you've seen before on screen.
Top CriticFor all its astronomical body count, Sin City is brazenly, thrillingly alive.
While Sin City on screen evokes the same feeling of bottomless decadence and dread that the novels do, there is one crucial difference -- you can put the novels down.
While the book succeeded in pushing the boundaries of its medium, the film merely feels like a triumph of technology.
A worthwhile piece of eye candy.
If Raymond Chandler and Daffy Duck could have produced a child, Sin City would be their baby.
The cast is excellent and the computer-generated visuals are consistently stunning. Too bad the narration sounds like a string of clichés from creaky old detective novels.
Sin City is a lot of things, but most of all, it's fun. It may not be for everyone, but everyone should see it once anyway, just to find out if it's for them.
This extremely violent movie is NOT for kids.
On one hand, Robert Rodriguez drenches "Sin City" in his usual monsoon of ironic, macho macabre. On the other, do-gooder pride prove as dangerous as broads or bad guys, offering a thematically gray complement to arctic-white, inkblot-black visuals.
My own trajectory while watching Sin City--excited, bored, offended...back to bored...roll credits
Sin City is the most accurate adaptation ever done of a comic book.
Hot chicks, big guns, bad ass bruisers, what more could you ask for?
"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.
A Ground-Breaking Piece of Film-Noir Fantasy.
...a gleaming pop revelation, a completely realized vision...
Eager to blaze trails for desktop moviemaking, what did these artists do? Throw fuel on the fires of viewers' basest appetites.
About as close to geek heaven as a film adaptation has ever been.
For those who revel in this kind of adrenaline rush spectator sport, let the games begin.
For all its visual razzle-dazzle and enjoyably bad-ass attitude, there's something curiously empty about Sin City.
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.
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- Hartigan: So long, Junior. Been a pleasure.
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- Marv: I've been having so much fun, I forgot to take my medicine.
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- Marv: It's okay, Lucille. I was just grazed.
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- Hartigan: Just one hour to go. My last day on the job. Early retirement. Not my idea. Doctor's orders. Heart condition. Angina, he calls it. I'm polishing my badge and getting used to the idea of saying goodbye to it. It and the 30 odd years of protecting and serving, and tears and blood, and terror and the triumph it represents. I'm thinking about Ilene's slow smile, bout the thick, fat steak she picked up at the butchers today. I'm thinking about the one loose end I haven't tied up. A young girl who's out there somewhere, helpless in the hands of a drooling lunatic.
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- Hartigan: Sometimes the truth doesn't matter like it ought. But you'll always remember things right. That's gonna mean a lot to me. But stay away, Nancy. They'll kill you if you don't stay away. Don't visit me. Don't write me. Don't even say my name
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- Marv: The night's as hot as hell. It's a lousy room in a lousy part of a lousy town - I'm staring at a goddess. She's telling me she wants me. I'm not going to waste one more minute wondering how I've gotten this lucky. She smells like angels ought to smell, the perfect woman... the Goddess. Goldie. She says her name is Goldie.
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