Film Review: Sin City (2005)
★☆☆☆☆
Finally watched this and couldn’t even make it through the full movie.
The visuals are great — I’ll give it that. The colour grading is very cool and lends nicely to the story. This is however, really the one good thing about this movie.
The writing feels like something that might have been written by a teen in a film class. It’s extremely contrived and bluntly done, like the writer only just started out. The acting, unfortunately is not much better — despite a star-studded cast, most of the performances feel lacklustre, like the actors weren’t really sure how to approach the script given how poor it was written.
Aspects of it feel right for the noir genre, but so much feels less like actual noir and more like what a person might imagine noir to be based on seeing it parodied in cartoons.
One star for the visuals, everything else was incredibly disappointing given how many *good* reviews I’ve seen that led me to believe this was something I had genuinely missed out on before.
All images used are from Sin City, 2005, copyright to Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, and Miramax Films.
