Sin City | 
 enlarge | Actors: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller (II), Jessica Alba, Devon Aoki, Alexis Bledel
Studio: Dimension
Category: DVD
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Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 124 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: DISD40864D
ISBN: 078886047X
UPC: 786936291568
EAN: 9780788860478
Theatrical Release Date: April 1, 2005
Release Date: August 16, 2005
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Sin city is infested with criminals crooked cops & sexy dames: some searching for vengeance some for redemption and others both. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 09/01/2006 Starring: Bruce Willis Mickey Rourke Run time: 126 minutes Rating: R Director: Frank Miller
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Brutal and breathtaking, Sin City is Robert Rodriguez's stunningly realized vision of Frank Miller's pulpy comic books. In the first of three separate but loosely related stories, Marv (Mickey Rourke in heavy makeup) tries to track down the killers of a woman who ended up dead in his bed. In the second story, Dwight's (Clive Owen) attempt to defend a woman from a brutal abuser goes horribly wrong, and threatens to destroy the uneasy truce among the police, the mob, and the women of Old Town. Finally, an aging cop on his last day on the job (Bruce Willis) rescues a young girl from a kidnapper, but is himself thrown in jail. Years later, he has a chance to save her again. 
Read our interview with Frank Miller. | Based on three of Miller's immensely popular and immensely gritty books (The Hard Goodbye, The Big Fat Kill, and That Yellow Bastard), Sin City is unquestionably the most faithful comic-book-based movie ever made. Each shot looks like a panel from its source material, and director Rodriguez (who refers to it as a "translation" rather than an adaptation) resigned from the Directors Guild so that Miller could share a directing credit. Like the books, it's almost entirely in stark black and white with some occasional bursts of color (a woman's red lips, a villain's yellow face). The backgrounds are entirely digitally generated, yet not self-consciously so, and perfectly capture Miller's gritty cityscape. And though most of Miller's copious nudity is absent, the violence is unrelentingly present. That may be the biggest obstacle to viewers who aren't already fans of the books and who may have been turned off by Kill Bill (whose director, Quentin Tarantino, helmed one scene of Sin City). In addition, it's a bleak, desperate world in which the heroes are killers, corruption rules, and the women are almost all prostitutes or strippers. But Miller's stories are riveting, and the huge cast--which also includes Jessica Alba, Jaime King, Brittany Murphy, Rosario Dawson, Benicio Del Toro, Elijah Wood, Nick Stahl, Michael Clarke Duncan, Devin Aoki, Carla Gugino, and Josh Hartnett--is just about perfect. (Only Bruce Willis and Michael Madsen, while very well-suited to their roles, seem hard to separate from their established screen personas.) In what Rodriguez hopes is the first of a series, Sin City is a spectacular achievement. --David Horiuchi More Sin City at Amazon.com 
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| Customer Reviews:
 Espectacular February 26, 2010
F. Franco
One of the best movies that I have, the extended versions are great. I recomend this Item.
Justice Served... February 10, 2010
Bindy Sue Frønkünschtein (under the rubble)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
SIN CITY is one of those miraculous movies that seems to come along every once in a while. Filled w/ violence, gore, insanity and murder, this is the hideous underbelly of hell on earth! Robert Rodriguez / Frank Miller have fashioned the perfect comic book on film. The overblown characters and impossible action take place in the netherworld of their combined imaginations, leaving us w/ a masterwork of incredible, explosive entertainment. Every evil person is a nightmarish ghoul or demon, embodied so well by the silent, stealthy, cannibalistic Kevin (Elija Wood). Every anti-hero is a darkened, jaded soul w/ one last shot at redemption. Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, and Clive Owen are the grand trinity of retribution and cold, hard justice. Their characters dole out the vengeance, and pay dearly for their trouble. Jessica Alba, Brittany Murphy, and Rosario Dawson are just three of the many idealized, ultra-hot females worth killing and dying for. SIN CITY is a bleak universe soaked in corruption and death. It's police (Benicio Del Toro), it's politicians (Powers Boothe), and it's clergy / church (Rutger Hauer) are all rotting, stinking institutions, held together by greed, perversion, and terror. If you like your stories hard-boiled, bloody, and downright nasty, then SC should be your next destination...
Stunning February 7, 2010
D. Beelik (Toronto, Canada)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The original theatrical version and unrated director's cut are presented here over two blu ray discs that are simply stunning to look at. The sound is sensational, the picture is reference quality. Highly recommended if your a fan of Sin City.
 Tedious Noir Comic Book. Video Game. January 18, 2010
C. Rocklein
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
How many times can a guy get shot and not be killed? Entertainment value in this movie depends on how many times you can enjoy the same guy being killed over and over again. Variety involves method of execution. Atmospheric sets, and cinematic style are not enough to make a good movie. So what does that leave? Ah yes, gorey special effects. It didn't offend, it just bored - like watching someone else play a video game. The Mickey Rourke sequence was probably the best of the bunch, but even then, this movie's a time waster. The difference between this pulp fiction and Tarantino's masterpiece (back when he still had an ounce of creativity) is that the movie "Pulp Fiction" had memorable characters and character development, interesting situations and dialogue, humour to round off the violence (and when the violence hit, it was scary!) and an intriguing and clever story all the way through. A difference in 'pulp fiction' I guess. You can add this one to your zombie movie collection.
Gritty and Visually Stunning January 8, 2010
Laura Mayer
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sin City is one of the most unique movies I've seen in that way it looks. The city looks dirty and slimy which is perfect for this film. There is a ton of violence and grit, so it is definitely not for everybody, but it is a perfect depiction of a crime infested city. Definitely not for kids or adults that are easily offended, but its an awesome adventure for people who can handle it. It's my favorite Bruce Willis role ever.
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