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Starring:
Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, Kate Bosworth, Carla Gugino, Brittany Murphy, Mickey Rourke, Elijah Wood, Clive Owen, Rosario Dawson, Michael Clarke Duncan, Alexis Bledel, Benicio Del Toro, Makenzie Vega, Tommy Flanagan, Rick Gomez, Nick Stahl, Devon Aoki, Jaime King, Jason Douglas, Jason Douglas, Christina Frankenfield
Directed By:
Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller
Written By:
Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller
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Sin City (2005)
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Movie Review by Justin 
January 12th, 2006
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Cinema year 2005 has come to a close, and this film, the most accomplished of the year, is curiously missing from the 'best of' tallies. It is a film that levels us with its visual ingenuity and staggering dramatic qualities. 'Sin City' is a fully realized universe, rich in texture and complete in its suggestion of the feeling and rationale of its world. We are prone to call it film-noirish, but that description is not wholly accurate; this movie is the very essence of film noir. Every detail is hard-boiled -- the crime roles, the spare, colloquial language of the dialogue and narration, the smoke and sex and sleaze balls -- right down to the deformed notions of justice in this corrupt society. Robert Rodriguez communicates Frank Miller's vision without compromise. It is fair to say that Sin City is the finest adaptation of a comic yet brought to the screen, but really it cannot be compared to any other. Never before has a movie so captured the essence of a comic that it's literally as if the pages have been invested with a soul. Nothing feels forced or too fantastic; it is not as if the actors are posturing as comic characters, but plainly that these one-time pen strokes have been given a license to walk, talk, and kill very vibrantly.
This film is stunning -- a weird, difficult film, to be sure -- but a masterpiece, if we are honest. It is ingenious from a technical standpoint, but there is also a meticulous brilliance in its singularity as a life-form. On the surface the movie is dour and offensive, but at its core pulsates a rattling -- disturbing, yes -- but undeniable vivaciousness.
I implore you -- give this one a chance.
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