Sin City: A Dame to Kill For – Artistic, cartoonish violence

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Sin City - A Dame to Kill ForSin City: A Dame to Kill For by Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez on Blu-ray
My rating: 8 out of 10 stars

Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller reunite. Weaving together Miller’s classic stories with new tales, Sin City’s hard-boiled citizens once again cross paths with more reviled inhabitants.

This is a movie that you have to really watch. You cannot sit and divide your time between the movie and reading a book or glancing at your tablet. Doing that would be like watching half a painting. This movie is all about the graphical presentation. Its use of live actors yet with a cartoonish black and white (emphasize on black) look with some occasional splatter of colors is absolutely marvelous. Look down and you miss something. The background voice a’la old fashioned detective story only serves to reinforce the feeling of being dumped into an old cartoon.

The story, or rather stories, are…

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