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Sin City , 2005

Sin City

English

USA

Rating:8.3
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Profile of Sin City

Sin City can be described as bleak, gloomy, and stylized. The plot revolves around a dystopia, social decay, and a violence spree. The main genres are independent, thriller, and action. In terms of style, Sin City involves multiple stories, is nonlinear, and features an all-star cast. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is fast paced. Sin City is set, at least in part, in an urban environment. It takes place in contemporary times. Visually, it is partly black and white. Sin City is adapted from a comic. The movie has received attention for being a blockbuster, an award winner, and critically acclaimed. It is well suited for a boys' night. Note that Sin City involves strong violent content, nudity, and sexual content.

Summary of Sin City

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.

Details

Language: English
Country: USA
Release date: 1 April 2005
Runtime: 147 min

Cast and Crew

Bruce Willis as Hartigan in Sin City
Bruce Willis

as Hartigan

Mickey Rourke as Marv in Sin City
Mickey Rourke

as Marv

Photos

Jessica Alba and director Robert Rodriguez on the set of Sin City (2005)
Jessica Alba and director Robert Rodriguez on the set of Sin City (2005)
Benicio Del Toro as Jackie-Boy in Sin City (2005)
Benicio Del Toro as Jackie-Boy in Sin City (2005)
Jaime King as Goldie in Sin City (2005)
Jaime King as Goldie in Sin City (2005)
Brittany Murphy as Shellie in Sin City (2005)
Brittany Murphy as Shellie in Sin City (2005)
Rosario Dawson as Gail and Clive Owen as Dwight in Sin City (2005)
Rosario Dawson as Gail and Clive Owen as Dwight in Sin City (2005)
Clive Owen as Dwight and Benicio Del Toro as Jackie-Boy in Sin City (2005)
Clive Owen as Dwight and Benicio Del Toro as Jackie-Boy in Sin City (2005)

Clips

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Critics Reviews

San Francisco Chronicle

A movie unlike any other.

Time

Sin City is brazenly, thrillingly alive.

Users Reviews

This is the worst movie I have seen in quite a while. Poor acting, even by Bruce Willis, is continuously accompanied by extreme, pornographic violence. (A bit of wholesome sex would be welcome!) The animation is poor. Give it a miss and your day...

Gritty would be the word I'd use to best sum up the way I feel towards this Frank Miller adaptation.A set of three stories unraveling themselves and using the classic film noir style as we sit up in our chairs staring at the thrills taking place...

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