An honest review, please tell me what you think.

So you ask 9 out of 10 people what they thought of this movie and most would say that absolutely hated it. Like most, I absolutely loved Sin City and when I saw the trailer for Miller's new project I was quite excited. The negative reviews turned me off so I didn't bother.

So I finally managed to see it with the bad reviews in my head, I didn't expect much at all. And basically I saw what everyone said. Miller is trying to recreate the energy and styling of Sin City with the cool dialog and logic seen in Pulp Fiction. And the film tries hard, and when I say hard, I mean HARD to be cool.

So like most action pictures of these days the film is PG-13. Which is odd considering this sort of material typically fits in an R rated film. So the film is fairly clean but it tries so hard to be all tough, cool and stylish. Again this makes no sense considering the Spirit character was along the PG lines of Dick Tracy. So this flick should either be PG or R, but its neither.

So how is the film? Annoying, overly stylzed, and goofy? You bet. But for some reason, this film sort of clicked for me. I went in expecting absolute garbage, instead what I saw was an average comic book flick, not a Razzie winner. Am I having a bias because I saw it for free rather then those who paid 11 bucks to see it? I can see why someone who paid that much to see this would be majorly disappointed.

Okay, so what about this flick works? What I expected to work. I liked the action, the girls, the humor at times, and did I mention the girls? Really folks, I wasn't expecting much at all. Certain elements add the end were disappointing because they made the whole film rather pointless.

If the film was directed by an experienced director and the script had a second draft that was a bit more focused rather then having five paper thin female characters, it would have been more of a solid final product.

Again, I'm willing to look past these flaws because I enjoyed what I saw which wasn't much, and of course this is no Sin City, but this isn't has horrible as most people are saying it is. With garbage like "Van Helsing", "Underworld", and "Doomsday" out there, this is a film that manages to be entertaining to a point.

Of course better then this and even Sin City, are the REAL classic noir films. For example, if you haven't seen The Matlese Falcon or The Big Sleep, see those before even considering Sin City.