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Let me do the DVD review of Sin City today, a movie I saw when it was released during April, 2005 in the US (it was never released in India as far as I can recollect). I am pretty sure the DVD released in India would have been heavily chopped, thank got I got my copy during my later visit at the end of 2005 from Borders. This is not a typical easy English Hollywood movie, so my suggestion is to turn on the sub-title to your DVD to enjoy the awesome slangy dialogues of the movie.

A collection of interweaving stories all based in the corrupt, crime infested hell-hole that is Basin City. Heavily influenced by film-noir, the main storylines concern a hulking brute called Marv (Mickey Rourke), who is seeking the murderer of a beautiful woman who was killed while asleep in bed with him; an ex-photographer called Dwight (Clive Owen) who accidentally kills a hero cop and has to cover it up; and a soon-to-be-retiring policeman called Hartigan (Bruce Willis) who is incarcerated for a crime he didn’t commit.

The movie starts with “That Yellow Bastard”, with Hartigan, Nancy (Jessia Alba, girl Nancy was played by Makenzie Vega). Hartigan is a detective tracking down a pervert who has kidnapped Nancy. He rescues her from the deranged son of Sin City’s Senator, Roark (Nick Stahl). The story continues with Nancy all grown up into a sexy lady and the senator’s son - aeerrr, Yellow.

The second story is “The Hard Goodbye” and it follows the adventure of Marv, who is a tough street fighter, who’d just had the night of his life with a beautiful woman, Goldie (Jaime King). He wakes up the next day to fiind her lying dead next to him on the love-shaped bed. Marv unleashes a die-hard quest for vengeance, killing anyone who gets in his way.

Then the third story is of “The Big Fat Kill” with Dwight, a P.I. trying to keep things clean in a dirty city. The cops are corrupt and have a deal with the hookers who in Old Town. When a cop winds up dead in the hands of the ladies, things goes into a dis-mantled mode.

Sin City is a entertaining, thrilling movie from the beginning to the end and worth a watch every moment of it, enjoy it to the fullest like consuming the fragrance of a woman who wants you like she never wanted anyone before. Your gut will tighten up while you enter the scenes of the Silent Old Town where the ladies rule the night. It will be ironic if people don’t like the baby dolls and the heavy beatings the bad guys have to endure. There is no use arguing with such scenes, they have their own ways. If you feel that this movie is not good for you, you’ve a lousy taste for movies. It will be really hard to take your eyes off the movie for a moments.

Dialogue and 40s pulp noir voiceovers are punctuated with clichés and gallows humor even as explosive, stylized violence unfolds onscreen. The cast of dozens all nosh the scenery, even when they don’t have a word to say — the mute, lethal and utterly vile villain, Kevin (Elijah Wood), is a character you won’t soon forget. Smaller roles with Rutger Hauer, Carla Gugino, and Powers Boothe are also sure to resonate with audiences.

The Dialogue and the 1940s pulp noir voiceovers are punctuated with clichés and gallows humor even as explosive, stylized violence unfolds onscreen. The cast of dozens all nosh the scenery, even when they don’t have a word to say — the mute, lethal and utterly vile villain, Kevin (Elijah Wood), is a character you won’t soon forget.

SIN CITY 2

Watch out for Sin City 2, the upcoming movie should be another visual and verbal treat, which is expected next year - 2008. Johnny Depp is rumored to be in the movie. We’ll continue to see the sexy Jessica Alba.

Sin City 2 plot follows multiple storyline. One is based around “A Dame to Kill For” which follows Dwight (Clive Owen) and his former love Ava Lord (Rachel Weisz), who betrayed him and ended their relationship for a wealthier man. Ava now returns years later claiming her marriage is abusive and insisting that Dwight help her. After she frames him for the murder of her husband, Dwight, with the help of Marv, seeks to clear his name. Dwight’s storyline in this film is a prequel to “The Big Fat Kill”, which occurred in the first film - Sin City. It explains how Dwight came to have his “new face” and his connections with the Old Town prostitutes.

A Dame to Kill For is, “It’s one of those hot nights, dry and windless. The kind that makes people do sweaty, secret things. Dwight’s thinking of all the ways he’s screwed up and what he’d give for one clear chance to wipe the slate clean, to dig his way out of the numb grey hell that is his life. And he’d give anything. Just to cut loose. Just to feel the fire. One more time.”

Another storyline follows Nancy (Jessica Alba) as she grieves the death of Detective Hartigan, the man she had grown to love after he rescued her from That Yellow Bastard who had kidnapped and attempted to rape then kill Nancy when she was a child.

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