What a pleasant surprise! So many symbols, details and colors. This movie is, like it says in the summary - moving pictures. Of course, the comparison with Sin City is inevitable, but this is different. Original. Poetry of composing colorful images. And yet, it still looks like a comic book brought to life. Or a theater of shadows. Or puppets (which is what Bunraku is all about, as a traditional Japanese theater). Everything made of drawings, cardboard and wood, except for some vehicles (Europeans will feel some nostalgia seeing old Fiat 600 and Reanault R8 Gordini) and swords. Surreal and yet very much close to what we imagine as real. Cast is excellent, as well as direction, editing, music and camera. Why not 10 stars then? There are some theatrical element I thing are not adequate for the whole composition. But you don't have to be so picky. Watch it and enjoy the art of making movies as moving pictures.

If not anything else, this movie looks really amazing. You may feel that it drops the ball on almost every other occasion (though I would slightly disagree with that statement),but you can't fault the movie for its cinematography. It's superb, with all the color schemes and framing, that you wish the other departments (minus set design that is) were up to par. The cast is good (with Demi Moore having one of her better roles in recent years, still a short one though) and Josh Brolin tries his best as the leading man.

While he almost succeeds (or maybe he even does completely succeed in your eyes),the stellar Woody Harrelson could've had a bit more screen time too. The action is nicely filmed, though it isn't anything that will make your jaw drop to the floor kind of stuff. Enjoy a "B-movie" that looks more expansive than it probably was.

In the post apocalyptic world guns are outlawed, swords are used. A district/town is run by Nicola (Ron Perlman). He has an army of killers known as Reds because the dress in red. Kevin McKidd plays Killer #2 the strong arm for Nicola. He has the ability of Uma Thurman in "Kill Bill." The people dress in gray...guess what they're called? Woody Harrelson is Little West Town's bartender at the Horseless Horseman. He is known as "The Bartender." One day a drifter comes to town...known as "The Drifter." He looks like Leonardo DiCaprio and wants to get into a high stakes card game. The sets has that surreal CG look that we originally saw in "Dick Tracy." The scenes are all done on a stage.

In a subplot, another stranger named Yoshi (Gackt Camui) comes to town. He is looking to avenge his father by taking back a golden dragon talisman. Both men have the ability to fight multiple trained fighters at one time without breaking a sweat. They bump heads at the Horseless Horseman and decide to join forces against Nicola and his red suit fighters as a cowboy without a gun and samurai without a sword.

The film is something Quinton Tarantino might have done growing up watching "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World." It has cartoon segments, numbers dropping down by people, extreme amount of fighting, and quirky humor. Woody Harrelson provides us with philosophy and pop-up books. If you like weird action films and Scott Pilgrim type of movie, this one will blow you away. The dialogue is filled with symbolism, metaphors, and double entendres. "The fight is not about who's right, but who's left."

The film makes full use of the soundtrack. Bravo to relative new comer Guy Moshe.

F-bomb (Demi Moore is in it),no sex or nudity.