SIN CITY: A DAME
TO KILL FOR (2014)
Tagline: Outlaws Will Become Heroes in a City Without Justice.
(Crime, Action, Stylistic Craziness) [R]
When you have been shot six times, sliced half in half, and even your will to get up and pound some face in, is missing. Well then you know, it’s going take a dame like that. You know…one of those dames you’d kill for.
It’s been 9 years since Frank Miller’s last installment of
SIN CITY, which unfortunately may have been a bit too long for most fans. While
there is something to be said about the stylistic mostly black, gray, and red
approach to this, it honestly felt like this one almost had too much color.
Yeah I know, I never thought I’d say that either.
Anyway, Jessica Alba is back
in form and Eva Green (300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE) is a dynamic addition to the storyline but there isn’t
enough division in the individual stories for the connection between them all
to really ever pay off. Bruce Willis (DIE HARD) creeps into this flick but overall we
might have been better off without the flashbacks and Nancy (Jessica Alba’s
character) just completely falling apart. Joseph Gordon-Levitt (10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU) was a nice
addition but his character was a bit too bold for this world especially given
the ease with which his butt was kicked. My only casting issue was that they
didn’t bother getting Devon Aoki back for the role of Miho, but it is possible
they couldn’t. I don’t think she’s been acting in anything since 2009. By the
way, I have nothing against Jamie Chung (THE MAN WITH TWO IRON FISTS) at all, it’s just that if you are
grabbing the same core cast, why not grab the original Miho.
Anyway, after a 9
year wait I feel like this could have been so much more. Or maybe the nostalgia
has worn off.
I
give SIN CITY 2 a 5 out of 7. If you liked the original don’t expect that, but
still worthy of your Frank Miller collection.
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