Sin City: A Dame to Kill For Movie Review

The summer movie season of 2014 has been extraordinary in my opinion and I'm so happy it ended on a good note...

A Dame to Kill For stars a whole load of awesome people seen on the poster above and is a sequel to 2005's Sin City, a movie which made graphic novel movie adaptions cool and indirectly spawned films such as 300, Watchmen and Kick-Ass. The sequel which took 9 years to come out is again directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller and sees a bunch of characters from the first film returning and interacting with new characters introduced for this film.

If you love the first Sin City movie then odds are you'll love this one as it has all of the sex, nudity, blood, guns and violence which made the first movie popular. The film shares the exact same bleak/badass tone the first film established and also sees its visual style completely mimicked. It is exactly the same as in the first movie; its filmed in black and white with various spots of colour plus uses slow motion to the point where it doesn't feel like a complete gimmick. It is a beautiful thing to look at and it feels as if you're watching the comic book pages move on the big screen.

What I liked the best about this movie was how interconnected the world of Sin City felt. The 3 storylines within the film aren't isolated events as some characters bounce between them. Those 2 are Marv, played by Mickey Rourke who is just a pure badass, and the villain, played by Powers Boothe who in my opinion is one of the standout performers of the movie, and a really good villain.

The main storyline mainly concerns Josh Brolin, a gruff and troubled badass, and Eva Green, who plays the so called "dame to kill for". Out of the 3 storylines this is actually the least interesting despite the fact that the movie spends well over half the runtime on it. It's not done poorly or anything it's just that this particular storyline wasn't anything exciting/refreshing for me. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't bored at parts during this storyline.

However Joseph Gordon Levitt is a good addition to the cast and his storyline is pretty cool. He plays a really quick and talented gambler who always seems to come up with the right cards. However, when he beats the wrong people he learns that Sin City is a cruel and unforgiving hell-whole.

Jessica Alba returns as Nancy and her storyline is the most interesting. Her character actually has some real depth to her and is dealing with some dark stuff which relates back to the events of the first film. Plus she's gorgeous! Her along with Rosario Dawson and Eva Green prove that this film is blessed with some attractive women.

Back on point, while the ending was fairly satisfying, it wrapped up rather quickly and didn't quite pay off as much as the film originally promised that it would. Other than that I really enjoyed A Dame to Kill For and it is a satisfying end to the summer movie season of 2014:


Rating - B


1 sentence summary -  Nudity, guns and violence, what more do you want?


I'm planning something special for my next post, which will be my 100th, so please stick around for that...

Thanks for reading,
Matt