Sin City (2005)
- Directed by
- Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller
- Genre
- thriller film, vigilante film, crime thriller film, crime drama film, neo-noir, gangster film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 2h 04m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 7.5 of 10 from 8,904 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Three interwoven crime stories in a corrupt and brutal city. An ex-convict seeks revenge for a murdered lover, a private investigator gets caught in a gang war between prostitutes and mercenaries, and a police officer protects a young woman from a serial killer.
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What happens
Sin City (also known as Frank Miller's Sin City) is a 2005 American neo-noir crime anthology film directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller based on Miller's comic book series of the same name. The film stars an ensemble cast led by Jessica Alba, Benicio del Toro, Brittany Murphy, Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, and Elijah Wood, and featuring Alexis Bledel, Powers Boothe, Michael Clarke Duncan, Rosario Dawson, Devon Aoki, Carla Gugino, Josh Hartnett, Rutger Hauer, Jaime King, Michael Madsen, Nick Stahl, and Makenzie Vega among others. Much of the film is based on the first, third, and fourth books in Miller's original comic series. The Hard Goodbye is about an ex-convict who embarks on a rampage in search of his one-time sweetheart's killer. The Big Fat Kill follows a private investigator who gets caught in a street war between a group of prostitutes and a group of mercenaries, the police, and the mob. That Yellow Bastard focuses on an aging police officer who protects a young woman from a grotesquely disfigured serial killer. The intro and outro of the film are based on the short story "The Customer is Always Right", which is collected in Booze, Broads & Bullets, the sixth book in the comic series. Sin City premiered at the Mann National Theater on March 28, 2005 and was released by Miramax Films on April 1, 2005. The film was a critical and commercial success, gathering particular recognition for the film's unique color processing which rendered most of the film in black and white while retaining or adding color for selected objects, while grossing $158.7 million against a $40 million budget. The film was screened at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival in competition and won the Technical Grand Prize for the film's "visual shaping". A sequel also directed by Miller and Rodriguez was released in 2014, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, but failed to match the success of its predecessor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.