![]() He’s a genuinely good man, probably the city’s last honest cop. Hartigan’s journey is the most pure of the three. Willis of course slips into the role almost effortlessly, and though we’ve seen him take on this type of character before, Sin City makes it impossible to be tired of it. We begin with Bruce Willis’ Hartigan, a sure sign that Willis is eternally type cast, since he’s again playing a beaten down, honest cop on his way to retirement. Three characters live in this city, and in their own, sometimes utterly twisted ways try to bring justice to a wasted, fetid world. Sin City is three separate stories held together by a few common threads. Though the black and white stylized look of the movie softens some of its more brutal blows, the bloodshed is laid on so thick it’s almost palpable. Violence is a way of life in Frank Miller’s world, and so the film itself is filled to the brim with it. The city is filled with murderers, thugs, rapists, and death. Vile, corrupt, and rotting from the inside out, this is someone’s vision of hell made real. So perhaps that’s why unlike other such overly devoted translation attempts (Harry Potter 1 & 2 anyone?) Sin City is a shocking, revolutionary success. But then this isn’t a novel they’re adapting, it’s a comic book. That kind of straight adaptation from book to screen is almost never successful, since film is a visual medium. So determined was he to bring the book to theaters exactly as is, Robert Rodriguez hired “Sin City’s” creator Frank Miller as a co-director. I’ve never read the Frank Miller comic on which it was based (and still don’t plan to), but Rodriguez's almost slavish devotion to putting nothing but exactly what’s in there panel for panel up on screen scared me. ![]() I went in to it with absolutely no expectations.
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