Review – Sin City

As one might expect from Frank Miller, the art direction is as excellent as the rest of the movie is dreadful. I was genuinely impressed with just how well Miller’s design work made the jump to the screen, thanks in large part to the power of digital special effects. The result is a movie that is a lot of fun to look at. It’s almost enough. Almost. The problem here is that along with Miller’s art comes Miller’s writing, and no amount of high tech manipulation can fix it. What works well in graphic novels sometimes comes across as stiff and corny on film, and unfortunately that applies to a lot of the plot and almost all the dialogue in this production. I also didn’t care much for some of the casting, though I concede that the actors were all appropriate to their roles. Overall I was sorry that this disc had to go back to the video store, because I would have liked to have watched it again with the sound off just to see if it was any better that way. Mildly amusing