Last night we saw Frank Miller’s Sin City. Apparently we saw a VERY different movie from all the critics and everyone else because we pretty much hated it.

So if we hated it why even give it a 5/10? Mainly Robert Rodriguez. The look of Sin City is amazing, you really have never seen anything like it. In that sense it reminded me a lot of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (another film that we didn’t really care for). Basically we thought the movie was awful, the acting terrible. Some of the dialog was great (just some) but most of it stunk too. The look of the film really is great, it really does feel like a comic book has come to life (much more so than other comic book movies which really are real life movies based on comics). This movie IS a comic book, and that is very cool.

Again I guess we just didn’t get it or saw a different version of the movie. If you know what we missed please let us know. Basically the plot (or plots) are all over the place. It’s similar to other large ensemble casts like Grand Canyon and Love Actually (although is obviously nothing like those). The thing that made those two films great (or at least really good) is that everything between all the apparently dis-separate groups of characters is that in the end they all tie together wonderfully and you see how they are all related. While they eventually do get tied together in Sin City it’s in a very hap-hazard way that isn’t fluid or believable at all. It just very matter-of-a-fact at the end, like “ok, I guess we’ll tie them together now”.

Ok, so the saving grace could have been the cast, right? Wrong. With a huge cast with the likes of Bruce Willis, Elijah Wood (a surprisingly dark role for him), Mickey Rourke, Brittany Murphy, Michael Madsen, Rutger Hauer, Josh Hartnett, Benicio Del Toro, Powers Boothe, and Jessica Alba you’d think there’d be something redeming with the film, right? Wrong. This once again proves that a lot of big stars does not make a great (or even decent) movie. So what about the plot? Well it’s one of the most brutal movies I’ve ever seen. No, it’s not Kill Bill bloody, but it’s pretty violent. That usually doesn’t bother me, like in Kill Bill where it adds to the film, but here it was just blood for the sake of blood.

Basically the plot is like watching 3 or 4 comics back to back. They are very disconnected and they are just slammed together with no smooth transitions between them. All of a sudden the entire movie shifts into something else and you have no idea why or where it’s going. “What happened to him?”, “What is this now?”, “Where did that go?” were frequent thoughts during the movie. Now I like thinking during a movie, but not a movie like this.

Ok, enough, you get it we hated it. Tell us what we missed. Tell us why we should have liked it. We don’t get what everyone else saw. My recommendation – avoid at ALL COSTS!