Sin City

I fully watched the DVD of Sin City.

My wife and I tried to see it on Sunday but she felt it was too over the top with violence and I couldn't watch it because my son was disruptive that night. I watched it today.

It was a great film. The most faithful rendition I have ever seen of a comic book movie. This is pure Frank Miller, I loved him from the Daredevil work he did but this is his Magnus Opus.

I think that the film worked best as a black and white film with the color splashes. If it had been done as pure color it would have been a shameful copy of a Sam Peckinpah film.

The casting is star studded with Bruce Willis as the virtuous cop; Micky Rourke in my opinion what is his best role since Pope of Greenwich Village as the tough guy loser who's trying to get justice for the one person who gave him a peek into love and Clive Owen as the killer trying to start over facing a turf war that will have repercussions beyond his existence.

Not just them but also a few other folks: Benicio Tel Toro, Jessica Alba, Rutger Hauer, Powers Booth, Rosario Dawson, Josh Hartnett, the kid from Gilmore Girls and even Frank Miller himself gets into the game as a priest that gets whacked.

If you're not too shy on violence and you get a kick out of the grittiness of graphic comics give this movie a try, I think you'll get a kick out of it.