Sin City (2005)

Based on the comic book series by Frank Miller, Sin City is Robert Rodriguez’s highly stylize owed to Pulp Fiction, both Tarantino and film noir. Multiple stories and characters interlock to varying degrees in a tapestry of artful language and violence. It’s highly refined exploitive trash, throughly addicting stuff. At the beginning of the film the names of the many name performers to be featured there in flash across the screen, you spend the next two hours getting to joyfully watch as they show up, several in the most unexcepted of performances (Elijah Wood as a serial killer?). I just had a ball. 4 ½ out of 5.