Sin City
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  • Summary: Robert Rodriguez and comic book icon Frank Miller co-direct Sin City, based on the series of graphic novels created, written and illustrated by Miller. The film is infested with criminals, crooked cops and sexy dames, some searching for vengeance, some for redemption and others, both. (Dimension Films)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 40
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 40
  3. Negative: 2 out of 40
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    100
    This isn't an adaptation of a comic book, it's like a comic book brought to life and pumped with steroids.
  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    100
    It's a guaranteed must-see for its generation. Sin City has a long, long shelf life ahead.
  3. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    88
    The worst thing I can say about this savage, sexy and ferociously funny screen translation of three stories from Frank Miller's Sin City series of graphic novels is that it's too much of a good thing.
  4. Newsweek
    Reviewed by: Devin Gordon
    80
    It's gory stuff, but it's also a visually arresting blitzkrieg with action so bare-knuckled you'll leave the theater spitting out teeth.
  5. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    70
    But once you're good and drunk on the look, details like the tin-eared tough-guy dialogue (which sounds especially stilted issuing from flesh-and-blood mouths) don't seem so important.
  6. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    58
    Glued tightly from page to screen, Sin City is so seduced by the visual possibilities of sin that style becomes its own vice.
  7. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: William Arnold
    0
    The attainment it achieves is in the depths of pointless, mean-spirited exploitation.

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  1. Positive: 223 out of 297
  2. Mixed: 19 out of 297
  3. Negative: 55 out of 297
  1. chicagopiano
    Aug 14, 2011
    10
    I loved the way the it is presented; a pulp noir thing. I never read the comic so I really didn't know what I was in for when I decided to watch this and I am glad I did. The violence is a bit over the top but it's no big deal, it acts as part of the city helping boost the fact that it's 'Sin City'… Expand
  2. AlexH.
    May 8, 2009
    10
    "Sin City" is a perfect comic book adaption that looks exactly like the comic book, and keeps the audience on the edge of their seat the whole time through Mickey Rourke's performance, Clive Owen's action and Bruce Willis' suspense.… Expand
  3. ChristosN.
    Oct 15, 2005
    10
    Just amazing... I'm stunned... The cinematography is unbelievable! One of the best movies I've seen in years.
  4. Castor600
    Feb 22, 2014
    10
    SIN CITY is ONE of the WILDEST MOVIES of the PAST DECADE
    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    … Expand
  5. Nesbitt10
    Jan 2, 2013
    9
    Extreme brutality and violence, visually-arresting cinematography, and nothing short of pure genius. Remarkable crime thriller neo-noir based on Frank Miller's graphic comic novel series. Directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, there wasn't a screenplay written for the film, and instead they approached the filming as a translation. This isn't an adaptation of a comic book, it's like a comic book brought to life and pumped with steroids. The movie is based on three of the "Sin City" stories which works perfectly for a two hour film. There are big time actors in the movie (Bruce Willis, Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke), but there is no lead role so much as actors who dominate the foreground and then move on. Fully digital, live action picture incorporating a technique of colorization while filmed in black and white. To say that this is the best comic book to movie adaptation I've ever seen would be an understatement.… Expand
  6. juliankleiss
    Jan 7, 2011
    8
    Comparing three seemingly undying men trying to do the right thing in a web of corruption, sickness, violence, and revenge. Great filmmaking. --------
  7. gretcheno.
    Oct 19, 2005
    0
    This is by far the worst movie ever made. The positive reviews MUST be a complete conspiracy of those who made or are paid to promote the movie.

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