Sin City (2005)

Synopsis: Several stories involving crime and violence. A cop stops a maniac from raping an 11-year-old girl. An ugly man sleeps with a beautiful woman and she is killed while he is asleep. He goes after the killer, who is an extremely nimble fighter. A fugitive from the law chases a woman beater and his goons down to a part of town ruled by prostitutes.

Appraisal: This is a humoristic work in its textual aspect, of a shallow kind that does not preclude enjoyment. The grotesque situations and dialog are subordinated to arresting, rigorously stylized images, resulting in a film that precisely attains its tone and sticks to it. It is comic-book fun, cinematically translated, for the eternal adolescent male.

Rating: 67