After completing his Spy Kids trilogy, which bristled with childish fun and irreverence, Robert Rodriguez turned his eyes back to the seedy world of gangsters and dangerous women that made him famous. In his latest film, however, the Mexican locales of his El Mariachi folk hero have been switched with a stylized, urban backdrop, and Rodriguez's spaghetti Western influences have been replaced with the noir color contrast of comic book art. Welcome to Sin City, a film so rife with eye candy and deliberate overacting that it threatens to undo itself, even as it's making the audience members' jaws drop.
Based on three out of the six graphic novels written and illustrated by Frank Miller