Genre:

Blockbuster: Produced by Hollywood, the typical institution for noir.

Crime/Gangster: Various gangs fight it out, most noticeable being the group under Gale’s control against the mobsters. Old Town baby! There anit gonna be no slowing down. It's the blood-for-blood days. The good old glory days. The all or nothin' days.


Film Noire: The setting and cynical characters gain it that genre. Film noir is believed to be, “A movie characterized by low-key lighting, a bleak urban setting, and corrupt, cynical characters.” Furthermore it is a usually used term “to describe a dark, suspenseful thriller.” ( Watson, James and Hill, Anne (2000) “Dictionary of Media & Communications Studies”, page 114 ) Also alternatively, it’s insisted that “film noir is not a genre, but rather the mood, style, point-of-view, or tone of a film.” ( http://www.filmsite.org/filmnoir.html )

Action: Explosions and car crashes in That Yellow Bastard and The Big Fat Kill. There are also an excess amount of guns, whereas if it were only noir it would only have been one gun perhaps held by one or two men, with the occasional fight for it. Or some switching of it between hands. As seen in L.A Confidential when the cycnical detective anti-hero hands over his badge and weapon. Or Double Indemnity when the dame shots the protagonist.

Comic book: Based on Frank Miller's Sin City comics, much like Spierman and Fantastic Four, only far more adult orientated.

With all this, it appears that Sin City is a hybrid film.