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20 Years Later, This Groundbreaking Action Movie Still Holds Up


20 years ago, Robert Rodriguez teamed up with Frank Miller for Sin City, one of the greatest comic book movies ever made

By 1991, Miller began telling his own stories in Sin City, a black-and-white crime noir comic book that attracted older readers, including director Robert Rodriguez. The film was split into multiple adaptations of Miller’s standalone stories, with an amazing ensemble cast including Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, Mickey Rourke, Benicio del Toro, Brittany Murphy, Clive Owen, Alexis Bledel and Elijah Wood. Most of Willis’ action movie roles were behind him at this point, and that made him a terrific choice to embody Hartigan’s wariness and his single-minded drive to protect Nancy Callahan ( Jessica Alba) at all costs.

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