Sin City
Directed by Robert Rodriguez, Frank MillerFour tales of crime adapted from Frank Miller's popular comics, focusing around a muscular brute who's looking for the person responsible for the death of his beloved Goldie (Jaime King), a man fed up with Sin City's corrupt law enforcement who takes the law into his own hands after a horrible mistake, a cop who risks his life to protect a girl from a deformed pedophile and a hitman looking to make a little cash.
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- KGM SOSA4d agoSin city is one of the most ambitious & unique films that has ever been pulled off. It’s a modernised film noir based on graphic novel comics. It’s an anthology of stories connected to each other by shared characters in the same city told in a non linear timeline like in pulp fiction. This film is so beautiful & visually compelling due to its film noir style visuals mixed with its gritty graphic novel visuals, this film revives the tragically forgotten medium of film noir. I want to talk about how this was executed before I go into my thoughts about the stories. This film was considered unfilmable until Robert Rodriguez pulled it off. It’s very silhouette heavy because of the way the art in the graphic novel as well as the film noir genre is. Obviously it’s entirely in black & white with the exception of selectively chosen splashes of colour for example blood is bright red & sometimes women’s outfits or lipstick are in colour, as well as eyes occasionally, this tactical almost weaponised use of colour is to aesthetically emphasize emotional impact, thematic symbolism (like love or danger). This was one of the first movies shot entirely on a digital camera & on a green screen background. With colour movies the colour is what separates the character from the background so for Sin City the edge lighting technique was essential for separating characters from the dark backgrounds. Another visionary technique used was the use of fluorescent props such as the bandages on Marv, & the makeup used for Hartigans scars, this is used to make the bandages, scars, etc stand out as white against their characters dark silhouettes, the same technique is used for blood throughout the film. As for the stories they are gritty, nihilistic & visceral. Sin City is infested with criminals, crooked cops & sexy dames, some searching for vengeance, some for redemption & others, both. The film tells 4 stories from the graphic novels, the 3 main ones are ‘That Yellow Bastard’, ‘The Hard Goodbye’ & ‘The Big Fat Kill’, as well as a mini interlude story called ‘the customer is always right’. ‘That Yellow Bastard’ is the story of John Hartigan (Bruce Willis), an honest cop who risks his life to protect a young Nancy Callahan (Jessica Alba) from a politically connected sadistic, disfigured murderer who’s also a p3dofile. She writes him letters until one day they stop, worried she’s in danger he gets out to go save her, all grown up now they fall in love as the go through hell to save her & get vengeance on the yellow bastard. ‘The Hard Goodbye’ Follows Marv (Mickey Rourke) an outcast & a brute framed for a crime he didn’t commit as he searches for the murderer of his one true love Goldie (Jaime King), So he can avenge the only woman who was ever kind to him. This is by far my favourite story of the 3. Lastly, ‘The Big Fat Kill’ follows Dwight McCarthy (Clive Owen), the clandestine love of Shellie (Brittany Murphy), as a bloody act of justice in the Old Town, the city's red-light district, threatens the already delicate truce between the local prostitute community & the police, the taciturn private eye, Dwight, becomes a protector after helping their cause. ‘The Hard Goodbye’ is my personal favourite story, followed closely by ‘That Yellow bastard’ then ‘Tje Big Fat Kill’, the mini story is also great but too short to rank amongst the 3 main stories although it does in its shorter runtime incite lots of emotion. I’ve always been a film noir fan, it’s an unfortunately dying art form mostly active in the 40s & 50s, I love films like ‘The Big Sleep’ (1946), so to see a modern revival of this visually beautiful medium of film is special. I am now obsessed with this film. It earns an easy 11/10 from me.
- makdelartJanuary 9, 2026What a style! What an atmosphere! The only comic book adaptation of its kind.
- gamegye8January 13, 2026Great movie
- mickerdooJuly 13, 2025Noir comic book style was so cutting edge. Great contrast and choices of color. stories were all similar with sex, violence and dramatics.
- ChromaticRangerOctober 31, 2024I enjoyed the dark noir style, and almost indestructible characters. I thought it was better than the reviews I had seen.
Sin City Trivia
Sin City was released on April 1, 2005.
Sin City was directed by Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller.
Sin City has a runtime of 2h 4m.
Sin City was produced by Elizabeth Avellan.
The key characters in Sin City are Hartigan (Bruce Willis), Nancy (Jessica Alba), Dwight (Clive Owen).
Sin City is rated R.
Sin City is a Thriller, Crime, Action film.
Sin City has an audience rating of 7.8 out of 10.