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Sin City (2005)

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Reviews Counted:40

Fresh:30

Rotten:10

Average Rating:7.2/10

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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    A worthwhile piece of eye candy.

    Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
    04/18/07
    J. R. Jones
    J. R. Jones
    Chicago Reader
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    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
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    Can bring more pain than satisfaction.

    Full Review Source: New Yorker | comment Comment
    05/21/05
    Anthony Lane
    Anthony Lane
    New Yorker
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    In the end, I have to say I liked Sin City almost in spite of myself.

    Full Review Source: New York Observer | comment Comment
    04/07/05
    Andrew Sarris
    Andrew Sarris
    New York Observer
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    Robert Rodriguez is one audaciously talented man.

    Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | comment Comment
    04/04/05
    Richard Roeper
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    It's a hard, viciously funny little movie, one with all the subtlety of a billy club. But there's artistry here, too.

    Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
    04/01/05
    Stephanie Zacharek
    Stephanie Zacharek
    Salon.com
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    The movie feels like a reductive exercise. Rodriguez might have accomplished what he set out to do, but I'm not sure he's done anyone any favors.

    Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
    04/01/05
    Carina Chocano
    Carina Chocano
    Los Angeles Times
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    Two hours and six minutes has never seemed so much like two and six-tenths seconds. It's pure pulp metafiction.

    Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
    04/01/05
    Stephen Hunter
    Stephen Hunter
    Washington Post
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    Miller's world of rough customers living on the wild side possesses a sordid allure, which the directors dazzlingly deliver to the screen.

    Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
    04/01/05
    Todd McCarthy
    Todd McCarthy
    Variety
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    To remember Sin City hours later is to remember from a different part of the brain that remembers conventional movies.

    Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
    04/01/05
    Mick LaSalle
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    San Francisco Chronicle
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    The most gorgeous digital movie ever made. It represents a stunning leap forward in both the technology of digital cinema and the art of filmmaking.

    Full Review Source: San Jose Mercury News | comment Comment
    04/01/05
    Bruce Newman
    Bruce Newman
    San Jose Mercury News
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    Sin City is a hard, cold, relentless assault. It's also something Hollywood seems to have given up on: a bold, uncompromised vision.

    Full Review Source: Rolling Stone | comment Comment
    04/01/05
    Peter Travers
    Peter Travers
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    Ultimately comes off as an exercise in cold-blooded stylishness, uninvolving and overlong at 2 hours and 6 minutes.

    Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
    04/01/05
    Dan DeLuca
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    Philadelphia Inquirer
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    You've got to hand it to Miller and Rodriguez. Their Sin City is no place for tourists.

    Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
    04/01/05
    Geoff Pevere
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    Toronto Star
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    Undeniably exciting, and as close to a comic book as the movies have ever gotten. It's a fun ride.

    Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | comment Comment
    04/01/05
    Stephen Whitty
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    Newark Star-Ledger
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    Unlike anything you've ever seen before.

    Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
    04/01/05
    Lou Lumenick
    Lou Lumenick
    New York Post
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    Mixing live-action with computer-generated images, it looks like the novels, talks and bleeds like the novels, is as muscular and voluptuous as the novels -- and it leaves you breathless as only a movie can.

    Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment 1 Comment
    04/01/05
    Jack Mathews
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    New York Daily News
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    Except for the striking images, it starts to fade even as you're watching it. It is such a bold and striking movie, however, that for the first time we can appreciate the full potential of what Rodriguez has wrought.

    Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
    04/01/05
    Eric Harrison
    Eric Harrison
    Houston Chronicle
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    Sin City gives sin a great name -- it's never been more plentiful or looked so gorgeous. What a visually stunning film this is.

    Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
    04/01/05
    Rick Groen
    Rick Groen
    Globe and Mail
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    This big-screen treatment of Miller's graphic novels is a soft- core marathon of stylized mayhem, flesh-pot excess and cinematic pretense.

    Full Review Source: Denver Post | comment Comment
    04/01/05
    Lisa Kennedy
    Lisa Kennedy
    Denver Post
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