{"id":18849,"date":"2014-12-09T07:56:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T12:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=18849"},"modified":"2016-01-24T08:03:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T13:03:50","slug":"sin-city-a-dame-to-kill-for-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/09\/sin-city-a-dame-to-kill-for-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It must either be really wise decision making, or a really weird coincidence that Eva Green stars in two Frank Miller based projects in 2014, both of which are pretty much just god awful cash grabs of their former films, and she ends up being about the best aspect of both films. Green really stole \u201cRise of an Empire<\/a>\u201d from everyone, and here she seems to embrace the absurdity in the incredibly rancid \u201cA Dame to Kill For.\u201d I\u2019m not going to say I\u2019m disappointed that \u201cA Dame to Kill For\u201d is awful, mainly because I didn\u2019t ask for a sequel and I didn\u2019t want one. I likened \u201cSin City\u201d to Robert Rodriguez\u2019s own wonky version of \u201cPulp Fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Do we need a sequel to \u201cPulp Fiction\u201d? Hell no.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA Dame to Kill For\u201d is a terrible follow up to what was an entertaining ensemble piece based on Frank Miller\u2019s gory neo noir graphic novels. This time around, directors Rodriguez and Miller seem to be marketing on the most popular aspects of their first film. It\u2019s almost as if they have no confidence in their material, so they\u2019re anxious to remind audiences why they enjoyed \u201cSin City<\/a>\u201d in the first place. If you loved the whole of the story as I did, you\u2019ll be annoyed to see that the pair relies heavily on Mickey Rourke\u2019s Marv, Jessica Alba\u2019s Nancy, and Power Boothe\u2019s villain Roark. In fact for a film that lists the former two with top billing Boothe gets more screen time than just about anyone. It\u2019s like Rodriguez is latching on to these parts, completely unaware that the first film was so well received.<\/p>\n

In either case, \u201cA Dame to Kill For\u201d immediately opens on Marv mid-narration (sans title sequence even), and even connects Marv to Nancy in a terribly convoluted excuse to segue in to the brutally boring finale. \u201cSin City\u201d was so much more entertaining and energetic while this feels like someone took left over parts and tried desperately to stretch it in to a coherent film. The story line jumps back and forth between time in order to accommodate and give us a valid excuse for bringing in stars from the first film. Though Marv was grilled on an electric chair in the end of his story line in \u201cSin City,\u201d he\u2019s back because his story line in the sequel is set in the past. And Dwight is also seen in the past before he changed his face to look like Clive Owen, but Nancy Callahan is still a stripper for her club. Hartigan occasionally appears in ghost form to remind us that Bruce Willis appeared in the first film.<\/p>\n

No wait\u2014Nancy is haunted by the ghost of Hartigan who she hates for committing suicide. Despite the fact Nancy would have had to keep running and hiding despite Hartigan taking his own life, she\u2019s still a stripper, and does nothing but moan about her sadness, drink her nights away, and plans to kill off Roark. The fact that the performances are stronger this time doesn\u2019t compensate for what is just a hundred minutes of droning nonsense. Its endless dialogue with no point, and the material concocted by Miller for the sake of the sequel just downright stinks. \u201cA Dame to Kill For\u201d is way too late, has nothing new or interesting to offer fans of the first film and is just half assed, poorly conceived, and so utterly awful. And they want to make a TV series out this? I\u2019m happy not visiting \u201cSin City\u201d for a very long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It must either be really wise decision making, or a really weird coincidence that Eva Green stars in two Frank Miller based projects in 2014, both of which are pretty much just god awful cash grabs of their former films, and she ends up being about the best aspect of both films. Green really stole […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,64,164,240,373,391,696,720,858,885,922,1087],"class_list":["post-18849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adaptation","tag-bruce-willis","tag-crime","tag-frank-miller","tag-gangster","tag-murder","tag-neo-noir","tag-robert-rodriguez","tag-s","tag-sequel","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18851,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18849\/revisions\/18851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}