Sin City

Sin City is Robert Rodriguez's finest film. You can take that to mean whatever you'd like. His style is clearly reminiscent of Tarantino, yet it's not as focused and mature, nor is it backed with the level of talent that Tarantino has. However, Rodriguez manages to capture the feel and style of comic book film noir, which, more or less, is what the actual comics were. But it's film noir that looks good, but lack its true, underlying substance. Much has been made of the film's content, which was extreme, but never seemed to affect me one way or the other. Of course, that could say more about me than it does about the film. It was generally entertaining, but not thoroughly. It was never really boring. But then again, I'm of the opinion that any film with Rutger Hauer is worth watching. Plus, when you throw in Mickey Rourke, Benicio Del Toro, and Clive Owen, you've got a good cast that looks and acts pretty cool, but doesn't have an effective place to put their machismo. Honestly, I really don't have any idea what I think of this film.