Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

In this film's defense, despite being a sequel made a full nine years after the original, and even despite doing absolutely nothing new, it still feels somewhat fresh. There really isn't much else like Sin City, but that also means that there's only one film to compare it to, and this one is worse.

First one was original, well-directed, and more connectable as an audience.On the contrary, this one is pretty generic, okayish directed, and I didn't give a rat's ass for anyone in the movie.

Marv(Rourke, hardened) wakes up not knowing where he is. Dwight(Brolin, a restrained, pre-surgery Clive Owen, and since this is one of several major characters who are in a very different place, the recasting works especially well) is trying to keep his rotten life in place, when Ava(Green, *the* femme fatale, and she's perfect for the role, one of the best elements in this.

In Sin City, Dwight finds himself still under the spell of Ava, gambler Johnny takes on Senator Roarke at the poker table, and Nancy determines to repay her debt to Hartigan and free herself from the constant threat of Senator Roarke's revenge. Marv helps.

Quickie Review:After 9 years Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller brings us back to the world of Sin City with the sequel A Dame to Kill For. The movie follows four different interweaving short stories, each focusing on a particular character.

In 2005, a visually-arresting film brought a graphic novel to striking life. The first "Sin City" film was such a novel film experience.

The tag line for the 2005 Sin City was "Walk down the right back alley in Sin City and you can find anything"; the sequel walks down the same back alleys. Nine years later the visual style hasn't changed and it returns to the mostly same characters instead of exploring new ones.

After the most disappointing film of As Above, So Below(Review here), I had high hopes for this. Normally I would be against goryness, slicing of throats etc.

Sin city is in short a masterpiece. A movie of its own that stands out.