Sin City: Extended and Recut

Take this for what it's worth: this was my favourite film so far of 2005, granted I haven't had chance to see that money (there wasn't much disposable income for 2005 because of saving for Holiday) but the film in my opinion absolutely brilliant- arguably the most loyal the original comic book adaptation since Mario Bava's Danger Diabolik in the 60s, every stunning frame of Sin City comes straight from the comics by Frank Miller (who co-directs with Robert Rodriguez).

The film concentrates on three of the stories "That Yellow Bastard", "The Big Fat Kill" and "The Hard Goodbye" (renamed from Sin City), all three stories are terrific and amazingly shot mainly using blue screen (cars and buildings where added on later) and features some brilliant performances- recommended are Devon Aoki, Brittany Murphy, Rosario Dawson and best of all in an amazing comeback turn: Mickey Rourke- the once faded 80s star not only takes the film from everybody else who builds a new career on it. Also look for Quentin Tarantino doing a spot of guest directing and more then one top action sequence.

There are people out there who didn't like this film (my brother for one), I found this bewildering- this film was one of the fresh, most innovative films to come around for a few years. This set comes with graphic novel copy of the Hard Goodbye and the extended version is in four stories (There is a bookend for the movie) which you can watch as self contained little movies (R1 only/R2 expected)

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