Overall Rating
  Awesome: 60.5%
Worth A Look: 16.61%
Average: 4.7%
Pretty Bad: 11.29%
Total Crap: 6.9%
18 reviews, 211 user ratings
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| Sin City |
by Brian McKay
"There’s good and then there’s great and then there’s SIN CITY"
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It’s usually raining or snowing in Sin City – depending not on the time of year, but the mood of the moment. Don’t worry, you’ll get used to it soon enough. So now you’re probably wondering how the hell you ended up here in Kadies, in the black heart of Old Town, and who this room full of freaks is. Well, have a seat and I’ll give you the straight dope.I notice you haven’t been able to take your eyes off curvaceous little Nancy Callahan (Jessica Alba) up on the stage. Well, you can grope with your eyes all you want, but you’d best sit on your hands – especially if that hardcase ex-cop Hartigan (Bruce Willis) is around. He’s her knight in tarnished armor -saved her from a child-molesting son of a senator back when she was just skinny little Nancy Callahan, and he got some extra lead in his diet and some time in the clink for his trouble. Now he’s back. Damn fool was trying to protect her, but all he’s done is bring trouble to her doorstep. Poor dumb bastard.
Speaking of trouble, look who just walked in. The hulking abattoir on two legs who makes Frankenstein look like James Dean is called Marv (Mickey Rourke). Make no mistake, he’s a killer. Look at that face, for Christ’s sake – what else could he be? But he’s really not such a bad guy, and he’s got a soft spot for the ladies . . . even if they usually won’t get within ten feet of him. He’s hauling a steamer trunk full of trouble behind him as well – word is that somebody killed the only woman he ever loved, then tried to put the frame on him for it. Marv’s gonna have to do a whole lot of killing to get to the one who took his Goldie (Jaime King) from him. I wonder who would be dumb enough to jump feet first onto Marv’s bad side?
The lucky guy with all the dames? That’s Dwight (Clive Owen), and the girls of Old Town - whores and goddesses, every last one of them. They look like chiseled marble, and they’re twice as hard when the chips are down. If you play nice and pay cash, they’ll make your world go ‘round. But friend, trust me, you don’t ever want to disrespect them . . . especially the Japanese one, deadly little Miho (Devon Aoki). She’ll cut you in half if you rub her or her sisters the wrong way, and word is she’s just been aching for some practice. Dwight supposedly has a thing with the tall, dark Amazon, Gail (Rosario Dawson), but I get the feeling it’s one of those all and nothing love affairs. But they’ve got other things on their minds right now. Miho cut up the wrong pack of troublemaking Johns, and now the cops and the mob are bringing a war to the girls of Old Town. It’s the bad old days, all over again.
These are the stories of Sin City – these and a thousand more. They’re simple and brutal, and yet there’s an undeniable beauty and complexity in their simplistic brutality. You can leave the moralizing to the philosophers and the self-appointed righteous. In Sin City, morality is as cheap as life itself, and it comes in shades of grey, just like everything else here. There are no saints here, there’s just good, bad, and worse. Things ain’t like the world outside. Men get beaten, stabbed, ran over, shot . . . and they get back up and keep coming back for more. Nobody stays dead in Sin City unless they want to - or unless you kill ‘em real good. But it’s those little flashes of color – a red dress, a wisp of blonde hair, a pair of fiery green eyes – that bring Sin City to life. Sometimes they’re all that remind you that you’re not in some dime-store gumshoe novel, or one of those hard-boiled comic books the kids are always reading. But just like the line between good and evil, the line between the world and Sin City is blurred. No evil goes unavenged, but no good deed remains unpunished, either. In Sin City, every moment is a story unto itself, and every damsel’s eye and killer’s craggy face has its own tale to tell. That’s why I like it here. That’s why I’ll stay.Just sit back, friend, and take it all in. In Sin City, the show never really starts, and never really ends. The show’s just always there, but you got here just in time for the really good parts. Just keep your eyes open and your head down, and try not to get caught in the spray of bullets and blood.
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originally posted: 04/02/05 04:08:28
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USA
01-Apr-2005 (R)
DVD: 13-Dec-2005
UK
N/A
Australia
14-Jul-2005
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