Sin City Movie Review

Most of the times movies are "based" in another works, mostly books, but recently comics and videogames have been gaining popularity with the Hollywood high execs because of its strong following with certain demographics (mostly males of course), but, as I said before, they are "based" or "barely based" and that's what gets this movie in a whole new category, because it doesn't only takes the original work (a comic book) and plays around with the characters and story, no, that would be too easy, this movie is a carbon copy of the comic, a translation from the pulp to the silver screen, and taking in count that the original has been lauded as one of the greatest comics in history, you should be forming some ideas of your own about the quality of this movie.
If you think that I'm joking or exagerating maybe it's because you haven't been in contact with the Frank Miller's original comic, come on, give it a look, you won't be dissapointed, it's a brilliant work that changed the idea of what comics should and could be, it's dark, it's violent, it's full of clever dialogs and memorable one liners that really lends themselves to a movie.
Everything has been taken care of to make you feel like you are watching the original comic but with movement: the angles, the pace, the casting and even the black and white color palletes are taken straight from the comic book. To add insult to injury, the original creator, Frank Miller, has a directing roll alongside Robert Rodriguez, who is himself a great fan of comics and wrote some of the music for the movie.
As I mentioned before, the casting is another of the strong points in this movie. Big names like Jessica Alba, Benicio del Toro, Mickey Rourke, Elijah Wood and Bruce Willis along some other excellent actors and actresses help to make this theatrical ride even more enjoyable.
It's not new by any standarts, it was released to cinemas in 2005, but it's one of my all time favorites and one of those movies that you can watch many times without getting bored, so, go ahead, give it a try and you surely will get a ton of fun out of it.