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.