Could've used more Josh Hartnett, but what an amazingly beautiful group of women.
It has been almost 20 years, and I'm still so impressed with how much it looks like a comic book. I've seen all the comments about the objectification and the misogyny, and I get it. There are some really cool women characters here doing badass things, but each story is narrated by its male "hero" saving a woman from a male sex criminal. I was a little burnt out on all the dudes by the end, except Josh Hartnett (because there wasn't enough of him), Elijah Wood (because I'll never be mad at him), and Clive Owen (I really liked his action star era).
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Sin City
Walk down the right back alley in Sin City and you can find anything...
Rating
4.0 (1)
Release Date
4/1/2005Runtime
124 minsOverview
Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others lust after redemption, and then there are those hoping for a little of both. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care.
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A stylized fever dream of overlapping crime stories where broken people enact bloody reckoning in a city designed for darkness. High-impact visual shock and moral complexity wrapped in comic-book pulp.
Mood
Dread-soakedAngryBleak
Themes
RedemptionRevengeJusticeCorruption
Tone
Operatic
Pacing
Propulsive
Look
Black and whiteHigh-contrastStylized genre
Structure
Anthology
Heads up
Graphic violenceSexual content
Bruce Willis
Det. John Hartigan
Jessica Alba
Nancy Callahan
Clive Owen
Dwight McCarthy
Mickey Rourke
Marv
Rutger Hauer
Cardinal Patrick Henry Roark
Benicio del Toro
Det. Lt. Jack "Jackie Boy" Rafferty
Alexis Bledel
Becky
Michael Madsen
Bob
Powers Boothe
Senator Roark
Nick Stahl
Roark Jr. / The Yellow Bastard
Devon Aoki
Miho
Michael Clarke Duncan
Manute
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