Sin City

Starring: Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, Benicio Del Toro, Clive Owen, Elijah Wood, Jessica Alba , Brittany Murphy, Josh Hartnett , Nick Stahl , Rosario Dawson Carla Gugino Jaime King Marley Shelton Alexis Bledel Devon Aoki Michael Clarke Duncan Rick Gomez Michael Madsen , Powers Boothe
Directed by:
Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller
Co-Director: Quentin Tarantino

**** STARS
Sin City is an exuberant filme. Robert Rodriguez has put Frank Miller's violent comic into one of the greatest comic movie ever made. With Quentin Tarantino as guest director, this is a film you've never seen before.

There is no set time or date in the film. It's a cross pollination of 1960-70's automobile with a present day background (the skyscrapers buildings etc.) The cinematography consists of black and white backgrounds with slight colors such as blood and hair.

The movie has 3 stories into one. First, it tells the story of Hartigan (an absolutely perfect Bruce Willis), a close to retirement cop who saves an 11 year old's life after she is kidnapped. Years later, when Hartigan is accused of rape and molestation charges is sent to prison for 8 years where he falsie confesses his sins so he can go free. Now all he wants back is the little girl whose name is Nancy. Nancy is all grown up and is now a strip dancer (Jessica Alba). He must find her and keep her safe. She is the only thing that is keeping him alive.

The next story is about a man name Marv (a brilliant performance by Mickey Rourke). Marv has had the night of his life. He meets a prostitute named Goldie and they spend the night together. Marv and Goldie share a special bond and Marv feels more for her than anything else in his life. In the morning when he wakes up, Goldie has been mysteriously killed, by the very disturbing cannibal named Kevin (a wicked awesome and deeply scary Elijah Wood). Now he seeks revenge on who committed this murder.

The last story involves a man named Dwight (the better and better Clive Owen). Dwight has a girlfriend Shellie (Murphy) who's ex is trying to come back into her life only she doesn't want him. His name is Jackie boy (Del Toro) and Dwight chases him out of Shellie's life. What Dwight soon finds out after he kills him is that he was a cop. So now he must protect himself and try to get rid of the evidence. Every moment of this film is purely creative, wild, and rich of life. It is a violent, wild, funny, and an amazingly stylish adaptation of the comic. The film is so alive that there is really no other way to explain it except to go and witness this yourself.