Adapted from Frank Miller's graphic novels SIN CITY is Robert Rodriguez's striking film noir infused with fantasy taking place in a world where it is eternally nighttime and everything is drenched in rain and violence. Using a unique combination of silvery black and white digital photography with occasional flashes of bright color for dazzling punctuation Rodriguez employs green screen techniques and paints a backdrop around each scene using Miller's co-direction as his cue to match the original setting as closely as possible. Three stories weave together occasionally overlapping. With lines delivered flatly in the hard-boiled style of Raymond Chandler these tales are about crime love loss and being preternaturally tough. In the most caustically dramatic segment Mickey Rourke plays the fearlessly lovestruck Marv a trenchcoat-clad beast who falls in love with prostitute Goldie (Jaime King) only to find her murdered by a demonic cannibal (Elijah Wood). In another segment Bruce Willis plays Hart...