Ricky's Rating: 8.5 / 10

Obviously by the name, this isn't a family movie. "Sin City" is based from the Frank Miller graphic novel series "that Hollywood would never touch." So, your asking yourself, "How was it made, then?" Answer: Easy. Miller directed along with Robert Rodriguez (Spy-Kids) to make sure that "City" was not movie like Cat-Woman, but like the comic itself.

Three intertwining stories occur during the film. 1) Old cop Hartigan (Willis) is searching to catch a child molester/murder (Stahl) who is the son of senator (Powers Boothe) before he kills his 6th victim, an eleven year old girl named Nancy. 2) Marv (Rourke) is a ex-con who falls in love with a prostitute named Goldie (King). Well, Marv awakes to see his beloved Goldie dead in bed, and to hear police sirens down street. He knows he was set up, but by whom and why? So he begins to search for answers while on the lam from police. 3) Shelly (Murphy) is always being pursued by a creep by the name of Jackie Boy. Well he stops on the wrong night, for Dwight (Owen), Shelly's boyfriend gives Jackie Boy a little punishment for what he's done, but as the story takes the two (and Jakie Boy's crew) into Old Towne, a lawless ghetto of Basin City maintained violently by prostitutes (Rosario Dawson, Aoki, Alexis Bledel), we find out a secret about Jackie Boy and what to do with him now...

The acting is great, as well as the CGI-enhanced settings (in which was shot entirely with green screens) to really make it feel as if you where watching a graphic novel come to life, but I also feel that it played part into getting the "R" rating. I think that if it were in full color, one, it would have gotten an NC-17 rating, and two, It wouldn't have been as good as a movie.

This definitely a graphic and violent movie. The language and the female frontal nudity doesn't help the fact that no one under 17 should be in the theaters while this picture plays.