Release Date: 8/16/2006 Original Release: 2005 Format: DVD Length: 126 minutes Rating:R (MPAA) Rating Reason: sustained strong stylized violence, nudity and sexual content including dialogue UPC: 786936291568 Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Science-Fiction/Fantasy, Fantasy, Cops, Film Noir, Theatrical Release, Sci-Fi/Horror/Fantasy, Crime, Guns, Love Affairs, Violence, Revenge, Strippers, Urban Crime, Fantasy Worlds, Urban Life, Based On A Novel
Description
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.
DVD Features
Keep Case Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85 Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound - English, French Dolby Digital DTS 5.1 Surround Sound - English, French
Frank Miller is really popular when it comes to films being made off of his comic books, and each movie is good. Sin City is a very different movie, wih the main style of the film, the interesting... Read the whole review at MatchFlick
Posted on November 15, 2007
Reviewed by: BillyBob
Well....I won't even begin to try to guess what the population in Sin City is, but if what goes on in this movie is an accurate sample of your average shoot-'em-up kind of day in town then I'd figger... Read the whole review at MatchFlick
Posted on March 31, 2007
Reviewed by: Zara
What can I say about this movie that hasn't been said in the 23 other previous reviews posted? Considering that I haven't read any of those other reviews, I'm not sure what the answer to that... Read the whole review at MatchFlick
Posted on February 10, 2008
Posted on November 15, 2007
