Saw "Sin City" Saturday. Well done, well acted, visually stunning, very gratuitously violent. If it's your kind of thing (as someone noted, if you like Miller ("Dark Knight Returns"), Rodriguez (sp? "El Mariachi"), and Tarantino ("Kill Bill")) you'll like it; if you don't like or recognize those names, DON'T GO.
Four short stories are presented, each depicting the dark underbelly of Basin City. Beautiful dames, bent detectives, crooked cops, hookers, ugly thugs, innocent children, and powerful politicians butt heads (and break limbs, smash jaws, sever limbs, etc.) over power and desire.
The black-and-white-with-a-splotch-of-color style is striking and well done. It's a breakthrough in movie style, supporting the over-the-top comic-book visuals. I primarily went to see that.
The action was also over-the-top, well into gratuitous - made possible by the comic-book setting.
Morality presented was ultimately good-vs-evil, but good wasn't much better than evil, and a lot of time dwelt on the evil.
Despite the link to comic books ([ahem] graphic novels), this is absolutely NOT for children. It's not for most adults, either. Like "Seven" and "Pulp Fiction", it's well done - but not for the weak of stomach or pure of heart.
I couldn't believe how many children where in the theater with adults. Where are their brains? (The adults, not the kids...though after seeing this, I might wonder about the kid's brains)!
Well, not exactly.
It sounds/looks like its only audience would be those suffering from arrested development.