Sin City translates the cool swagger and ultra-violence of Frank Miller's graphic novels to the screen with amazing faithfulness. Miller himself is co-director with Robert Rodriguez, who's already established his knack for atmospheric filmmaking.
Appearing some 50 years after the heyday of film noir -- that dark 1940s and '50s genre that specialized in urban crime, corruption and hopelessness -- Sin City is ultimate film noir. The mood in the mostly black-and-white drama is grimmer than Baton Rouge after an LSU Tigers football loss.
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