Film Critic: SinCity

This week I had the luxury, after being sick with still and unknown throat virus, to see SinCity. Its a movie that is heavily influenced by film-noir story telling. It centers around three separate stories that over lap each other throughout the movie. Though a little thin, it was well plotted and thought through. It offered a creative view in creating a chapter-like film sequence and makes up for some lacking form and function. The acting and casting was superb with Bruce Willis as Hartigan, a cop with a bum ticker and a vow to protect the sweet 19-year-old Nancy (Jessica Alba); insanely perfectly casted Mickey Rourke as Marv, who is the outcast misanthrope on a mission to avenge the of his one true love, Goldie (Jaime King[from Omaha w00t w00t!]) while Elijia Wood makes a cannibalistic cameo, and Clive Owen as Dwight, the clandestine love of Shelley (Brittany Murphy), who spends his nights defending Gail (Rosario Dawson) and her Old Towne s (Devon Aoki and Alexis Bledel) from Jackie Boy (Benicio Del Toro), a dirty cop with a penchant for . More so, the visual was astonishing. This black and white dark, post pop art is a glorious owed to the original novel. Everything from the angle to simple color splashes adds an overwhelming interest and eludes to the movies darker presence. It's style is intense but deliberate, though it's perfect for completing the film. The fashion is beautiful and finalizes the entire illustration of a corrupt, crime infested hell-hole that is Basin City. The special effects were in region of their own, not seen before in such a way becaus visuals of the movie allowed for both the personal and at times, too up front, gore to involve you (difficult for a jaded generation). It allows for a sophistication (for lack of a better word) that shows the art and sad beauty of destruction/death. I enjoyed the movie once getting over the constant gore and the ideal that all men are ultra masochist, pshyco-delusional brutes who fall in love far too easy, and all women are dark, simple, sexual, untouchable, weapon welding prostitutes who are all in dire need of a man for leadership (and a little clothing if you ask me). Well, I guess s with bullets is hot. The movie is simple, dark, twisted, intense and sexually frustrated; the visuals, from beauty to gore, are mouth dropping/eye catching; the acting is amazing and perfectly cast. Most importantly this movie is art... in your face gritty art. It is a pure and polluted movie and never strays from it's path of pop art beauty, gore, sex, style, grime, and fashion.
Movie thoughts: see it in theaters/ NOT for everyone/ go with the right crowd/ prepare for boobs and blood.
SinCity: 4 out of 5 *****