Sin City.


Pains me to say it, but this wasn't alot of fun.

Les diagnosed it as we left the film: it was just humourless. So damn desperately bleak. 2.5 hours of relentless torture & whoring & peril.

See, I'm all for stylised violence, but this is no Kill Bill - it's oppressive & overwhelming in its lack of levity, both in content & in style.

Positives? Well dammit, it's beautiful... in a way that does bolster the story (not a shallow, purely decorative Passion of the Christ beauty). And it scores points for having characters vomit onscreen at times when the action demands it.

But I'd wanted an excuse to go straight out & buy a pile of the comics, and i now just want to forget tonight's events. Especially what he did with the rubber tubing.

Then again, I felt this way straight after the first Kill Bill, too...