


The actors are mined for the archetypes they contain Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Benicio Del Toro, Clive Owen and the others are rotated into a hyperdimension. It internalizes the harsh world of the Frank Miller "Sin City" comic books and processes it through computer effects, grotesque makeup, lurid costumes and dialogue that chops at the language of noir. The movie is not about narrative but about style. It contains characters who occupy stories, but to describe the characters and summarize the stories would be like replacing the weather with a weather map. This isn't an adaptation of a comic book, it's like a comic book brought to life and pumped with steroids.
