Sin City (2005)

Sin City is the graphic movie novel based on Frank Miller's graphic novels. Miller himself and Roberto Rodriguez is in charge of direction, with a little help from Rodriguez' old friend Quentin Tarantino. A star packed movie throwing around A-list actors and actresses into supporting bi-parts like rarely ever seen elsewhere. A visual blend of graphic novel style and old fashioned black and white Noir pasted with single rare colors like red, blue, yellow or milky white to light up details like torched. It's so fitting for the story told, the darkly twisted and corrupt Basin City and the characters we follow.

I couldn't even begin to take on the actors or characters. Those not mentioned would unfairly be left out, and those actually mentioned I wouldn't be able to do justice. It's an epic tale told with the help of superstars. Where else would you get actors like Michael Madsen and Elijah Wood to drop in for such small, but still interesting,  parts? Where else do you get the style of Devon Aoki, Carla Gugino and Alexis Bledel dropping bylike they've done here? It's actors, actresses and acting displays worth pages in this movie, and still I feel I've said enough as I couldn't possibly justify singling out any.

The stories told never excuse them self for being graphic in style, never tries to hide its birth in the form of graphic novels and still mix and match in the classic Noir feel with old fashioned detective novel views and a storytelling deeply rooted in another time. They mix the cheesy with poetic lines worthy any masterpiece you could imagine. They mix what feminists probably hate, with deep appreciation for the female form, empathy and a hell of a lot of other stuff. It's bloody, but buried into the graphic novel view. Sin City isn't for everyone, but for whom it might attract; it attracts with depth, style and a firm hand on the delivery. I doubt no-one ever could take on such a movie again, and top this. That speaks a lot when this should be considered a first ever made mixing these genres like here. A modern classic.