The worst thing I can say about this savage, sexy and ferociously funny screen translation of three stories from Frank Miller's Sin City series of graphic novels is that it's too much of a good thing. Your eyes go boing so early that the effect wears off. But stick with it. As opposed to the arty and enervated Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, which also filmed actors against computer-generated backgrounds, Sin City has a restless bug-fuck vitality. It'll be way too much for Bush America,…

Frank Miller is a boundary-pushing iconoclast turned comic-book icon. Robert Rodriguez is a thoroughly maverick filmmaker whose built major mainstream street cred. Together, they meet in the grim, gritty back alleys of Miller's masterful creation Sin City and, much like the resultant film's characters, find something wildly noble and worthy in the bleak, deadly shadows. It's a movie worth taking a bullet for.

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Sin City is culled from the best of over a decade's worth of writer-artist…