Movie: 3D Sin City - A Dame To Kill For

It's hard to believe that the first Sin City movie was 9 years ago. I can't believe there haven't been many more movies made with the unique visual style of Sin City. I would love to see a superhero movie made with in this very unique and original style.

For those who aren't familiar with this style of movie, it's literally a comic book made with real people. It's very dark, it's mainly black and white, but there are splashes of colour. It reminds me a little of the Humphrey Bogart detective movies of the forties and fifties, but everything is hyper-real.

This film is visually stunning. It's also horrendously violent. People lose body parts on a regular basis throughout the film. The spurting blood however is white, not red.

The plot is fantastic. There are a number of sub-plots, which are mostly connected up by the end, but there is still enough mystery to open up the possibility of a third installment.

The casting is brilliant. Nearly all of the main characters are back, and there are quite a few little cameos throughout the film. Try spotting Stacy Keach. Powers Booth is just superb as a crooked senator, but Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Josh Brolin are brilliant as well. They are not playing real people in this movie. All of the characters are hyper real. Mickey Rourke returns as Marv, this time more as a good guy. This is a role he seems to have been born to play, to use an old cliche.

I know it doesn't really mean much, but the box office of this movie doesn't look to good. According to box office mojo, this move has made only 27 million on a budget that I suspect is quite substantial, where as the first Sin City movie made 150 million on a 40 million budget. I just hope that this doesn't mean an end to this style of film making. Do we really need a 19th reboot of Batman?....