Movie Description
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.
| Credits | | Producer: | Elizabeth Avellan, Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez | | Cast: | Carla Gugino, Clive Owen, Elijah Wood, Frank Miller, Michael Clarke Duncan, Michael Madsen, Rosario Dawson |
| Details | | Edition: | Premium Edition; 2-Disc Set |
Editorial Reviews
"Right now it looks like one of the movies that will define its year even more than the KILL BILL duo did."
USA Today - Mike Clark (04/01/2005)
"[I]t's like a comic book brought to life and pumped with steroids....It's a visualization of the pulp noir imagination, uncompromising and extreme. Yes, and brilliant."
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (04/01/2005)
"[A] jazzy-looking screen translation..."
Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Schwarzbaum (04/08/2005)
"Rodriguez delivers a sumptuous computer-generated vision of Miller's hardboiled fantasy universe....A perfect slice of gleefully violent 21st-century film noir for sick, twisted pop culture aficionados everywhere."
Uncut - Andrew Sumner (06/01/2005)
"Credit first goes to Robert Rodriquez, a tirelessly innovative director who thrives on doing things the rules say he can't....A bold, uncompromised vision."
Rolling Stone - Peter Travers (04/21/2005)
"SIN CITY is consistently gorgeous..."
Sight and Sound - Kim Newman (06/01/2005)
"This was a groundbreaking movie for both its look and how that look was achieved."
Premiere - Premiere Staff (09/01/2005)
"Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's all-digital uber-noir gets a blowout DVD-ing..."
Movieline's Hollywood Life - Michael Atkinson (11/01/2005)
Ranked #10 in Uncut's Best Films Of 2005 -- "Rodriguez creates a visual masterpiece, an entirely digital rendition of the comic-book world."
Uncut - Uncut Staff (01/01/0206)
Ranked #5 in Rolling Stone's "Top 25 DVDs Of 2005' -- "[T]he film captures the dazzling monochrome of Frank Miller's graphic novels."
Rolling Stone - Peter Travers (12/01/2005)
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