10 Most Stunning Comic Book Movies Ever Made

4. Road to Perdition

Sin City
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Hot off the back of his Oscar-winning debut with American Beauty, Sam Mendes made the leftfield move to adapt a 1998 graphic novel, itself based on a Japanese manga, following the journey of a mob enforcer and his young son as they look to avenge the death of their family - and in the process, gave the cinematic medium one of its most striking visual entries of the twenty-first century.

Cinematographer Conrad L. Hall won a posthumous Academy Award for his work which, like Sin City would after it, lifts some panels directly from its source to the screen. But the lenser also drew on the works of Edward Hooper to craft an atmospheric period piece draped in shadows and dark muted corners in line with the principal character of Michael Sullivan, as portrayed by Tom Hanks. It remains dazzling to this day.

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