The movie I'm talking about: Sin City. I heard lots of people raving about this movie in 2005, finally the 'recut and extended' DVD set became available, and after all that acclaim I decided to shell out my hard earned Euros. It didn't disappoint at all, the story is interesting and challenging to follow, the movie is visually stunning, and the DVD set is full of extras and information. It even contains the comic novels which are the basis of the movie, and flipping through the story it makes me appreciate much more the visual style and closeness of the movie to its graphical-novel origin.

Although no 'blood' is visible in the movie (blood is always 'white' - don't ask me why, but it makes sense if you look at the origin and the artistically direction of the movie), the story and the movie itself are not something for the faint of hard, I think it got an R rating, and this is well deserved. It might not be the best dating movie ...

As mentioned above, the DVD set is full of additional material, and even for the non-fan of the movie, there is plenty of interesting information to browse through. Although it was already late, I spent another hour quickly browsing through the material, I still have some open questions about the story (I think I missed a few bonus-details), and will definitely watch the movie again ...

My rating - highly recommended... 5 out of 5 stars