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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.

Runtime: 2 hrs 27 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

US 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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A stunning explosion of black and white, with splashes of red.

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07/11/05
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06/24/05
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For the guys it’s Rodriguez’s best film by far and a treat for fans of good-looking girls in black-and-white, of classic film noir and of imaginative ultra-violence.

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01/07/06
Kim Newman
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Can bring more pain than satisfaction.

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05/21/05
Anthony Lane
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New Yorker
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Robert Rodriguez is one audaciously talented man.

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04/04/05
Richard Roeper
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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.

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04/01/05
Carina Chocano
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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.

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04/01/05
Stephen Hunter
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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.

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04/01/05
Todd McCarthy
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Variety
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It'll be interesting to see how time treats City's novelty value once live action/computer screen hybrids become more common. Right now it looks like one of the movies that will define its year even more than the Kill Bill duo did.

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03/31/05
Mike Clark
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USA Today
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Rodriguez and company have so faithfully captured Miller's essence, there's something beautiful about the whole thing. It's an act of inspired reverence.

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03/31/05
Desson Thomson
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Washington Post
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Sin City has been made with such scrupulous care and obvious love for its genre influences that it's a shame the movie is kind of a bore.

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03/31/05
Manohla Dargis
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New York Times
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It's a visualization of the pulp noir imagination, uncompromising and extreme. Yes, and brilliant.

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03/31/05
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