"Sin City" is film noir amped like nobody's business. Imagine the perverse fiction of Jim Thompson and Cornell Woolrich crossed with S&M/fetish art and the exaggerated bravado and punchy prose of "Pulp Fiction" and you're halfway there. Lifted almost intact from the graphic novels of Frank Miller, the movie is a directorial collaboration between Miller and innovative filmmaking maverick Robert Rodriguez.

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