Out of lack of anything else better to do on Boxing Day (more commonly known as ‘the day after Christmas’ in the Arab world), I found myself in Dubai at – guess where – City Centre!Dubai City Centre is the bloody meeting place of the Emirates. Everytime I go there, there’s always someone I find to shake hands with, but then again, I do quite a lot of hand shaking.Anyway, I browsed around the usual shops: Virgin, Magrudy’s, Carrefour… and noticed that my wallet was feeling slightly too heavy to haul about. Naturally, I had to buy something. After careful inspection of the DVD section of carrefour, I found myself with two options: Sin City and a Collector’s Edition of The Ring and The Ring 2. I had heard quite a bit about The Ring, but I wasn’t in the mood to watch a scary movie and Sin City’s style had interested me for quite a while so I decided to buy it.

I hate movies that throw me into a maze of utter confusion and force me to try to think hard around their loops and twists. This is exactly what Sin City is like. Apart from the amusing scenes of extreme violence such as Bruce Willis ripping off some mutated guy’s er… you know what, heads flying off bodies at regular intervals, and the mashing of bodies into bloody pulps, I tried hard (not really – I couldn’t be bothered) to put the different stories together, but failed miserably.

All I can say is that after watching Sin City I’m silently grateful that I don’t have a bullet in my groinal area right now.