More Sinning than Sinned Against

Sin City(2005)

Starring: Mickey O'Rourke, Clive Owen Directed by: Frank Miller Rating: MR Genre: Drama Other

Review There are a million stories in the big city, but thankfully director Frank Miller has chosen only three to tell in Sin City, a spin-off of the highly popular software game in which the player creates "Sins," then feeds them, showers them, leads them to the bathroom and cleans up their kitchens for them. One of the more popular features of the game is the "Add-On Pak" which allows the player to set his "Sin" in college, for instance, or amongst a group of hippies who form a roving amateur circus. Miller's movie appears to be just such an "Add-On," as his "Sins" wander around a strangely discolored, desolate cityscape, committing unspeakably violent acts of despair upon their equally disconsolate fellow citizens. Strange to say, I found it fascinating - a peek at what I expect our children will be playing ten years from now. Immersive 3-d environments in which characters are decapitated right before your eyes may signal the end of civilization for some, but I know it's not real (unless, of course, you know someone who has been decapitated. In that case, I apologize). I say, bring on the dancing girls!