Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City turns Frank Miller’s extremely graphic graphic novels into a grisly, galvanizing update of film noir fatalism. What happens in Sin City – encompassed in three intertwining stories populated by shady cops, cruel murderers and vengeful hookers – feels like what might have been going on in those 1940s and ’50s crime pictures when no one was looking. Starring Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke and Rosario Dawson in a black-and-white landscape with occasional dollops of color, as if Rodriguez had snuck into the old Warner Bros. archives with a Magic Marker.
