Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

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Released Aug 22, 2014

1 hr. 41 min.

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43%

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The damaged denizens of Sin City return for another round of stories from the mind of Frank Miller. In "Just Another Saturday Night," Marv (Mickey Rourke) struggles to recall a nasty run-in with some frat boys. In "A Dame to Kill For," Dwight McCarthy (Josh Brolin) forsakes his battle with his inner demons to help Ava Lord (Eva Green), the woman of his dreams and nightmares. In "Nancy's Last Dance," Nancy Callahan (Jessica Alba), mad with grief and rage over Hartigan's death, vows revenge.

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A Dame to Kill For boasts the same stylish violence and striking visual palette as the original Sin City, but lacks its predecessor's brutal impact.

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Axel X

I had a very brief conversation with my dad over the first and second "Sin City." My dad loved the first movie and hated the second saying: "The second one was stupid."; or something along those lines. I hadn't actually seen the second one. I saw the first one and hated it. If you wish to see my review on that please check the description at the end I'd highly recommend that all of you read that review before reading this one since I'm going to be making comparisons between the two movies. "Sin City: A Dame To Kill For" is one of the best movies I've seen in a while. But the reason I liked this one is mainly because it's not guilty of the sins of the first movie. The only really big Sin that "A Dame To Kill For" is guilty of is for almost the entire movie I couldn't fucking tell if this was a prequel or a sequel. Now that I've done a little research online I realize now that it was a combination prequel and a sequel. Because there are events that happen in this movie that I knew this had to have happened before the first one. And there were events that most definitely had to have occurred after the first "Sin City." And it was confusing, but "A Dame To Kill For" was still pretty cool. I really liked the cinematography of this movie. There were two really amazing shots in this movie that I was a big fan of: The part where we get an extreme close up of the cards being shuffled in the back room and the part where Dwight is at Ava's house for the first time and he's watching as Ava dives into the pool naked. I couldn't contain myself when I saw that and honest to god I said to myself out loud: "Man that looks cool!" I'm starting to realize that one reason why I didn't like the first "Sin City" is because I think that movie just had such a bleak ending for most of the stories. At least in this one you get to see the good guys win more so than in the first one. I think the only story that I wasn't a big fan of was the one Johnny's a part of. Not because I didn't like his character or the storyline of this part mind you, but because his storyline just felt so pointless. I mean he comes to see his father, he got his ass kicked, his girlfriend got killed and then he gets killed himself. I think that this was the most disappointing part of the movie because nothing but misery happens here. I mean he wins at the tables but other than that he doesn't win anything else. It wasn't bad, but just felt so pointless despite the fact that I liked Johnny's parts of the movie. My main issues with the first "Sin City" were that: Physics wasn't a thing, and that the pacing was way too fast. I mean Marv is one of the characters who is just a big screw you to physics in the world of "Sin City." And I took issue with the fact that he was super-strong in the first "Sin City." Here I guess I didn't mind so much because he wasn't doing it nearly as often as he was in the first "Sin City." I'm very glad that this movie was a lot smarter than the first "Sin City" the pacing improved A LOT when you compare the pacing of "A Dame To Kill For" to the pacing of the first "Sin City." I am more than satisfied with this movie.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/26/24

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Reggie P

it's same quality of first one, but sadly the hype victims were instructed to hate it because ya knoooow.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

09/27/23

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Rick R

entertaining interesting different I liked this movie rr

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

07/18/23

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Emilliano S

This is one of those sequels you never asked for.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

06/09/23

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JOHN GERSON N

Regarding this continuation, Eva green gives a great performance but the story threads of the previous film are lost.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

05/14/23

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TWMax65

I didn't really like the character of Ava, not a lot of depth with her and a little too much back and forth. I also feel like there wouldn't be that many great hands in a poker game happening so often, those scenes felt a little bit rushed. Aside from being a bit more unfocused, it's about the same as the first movie which I liked! The graphic/artistic action and directing were really good and Mickey Rourke was a complete badass, as well as Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Josh Brolin. The villain was definitely good at making me desire justice against him and the actor who played him played a good bad guy. A mediocre follow up but still not that bad!

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

05/13/23

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Robert Rodriguez

Director

Frank Miller

Director

Mickey Rourke

Marv

Jessica Alba

Nancy Callahan

Josh Brolin

Dwight McCarthy

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Johnny

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David Sims

AV Club

To call Sin City noir is to misunderstand the genre, as perhaps Miller does. Each story ends pretty simply-in brutal fighting and murder-and lacks genuine intrigue or ambiguity.

Sep 22, 2016

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Jason Bailey

Flavorwire

The duration between the first film and its sequel doesn't fully explain the new film's flaws, it's quite instructive when examining the reactions to them.

Jun 18, 2016

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David Stratton

The Australian

There's a bleak beauty to all of this, but also there's a reliance on stereotypes, male and female, that, while they come directly from the source material, are starting to become irritating.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 22, 2014

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Moments of greatness do occur, and the audience is rapt throughout, just with less unbridled enthusiasm than when we last visited Miller's world nine years ago.

Rated: 3/4

Jul 29, 2022

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Therese Lacson

Nerdophiles

Haters Gonna Hate, But I Loved Being Back in Sin City

Rated: 4/5

Oct 9, 2021

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Kip Mooney

College Movie Review

There's nothing to wow here.

Rated: C+

Aug 31, 2021

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Synopsis

The damaged denizens of Sin City return for another round of stories from the mind of Frank Miller. In "Just Another Saturday Night," Marv (Mickey Rourke) struggles to recall a nasty run-in with some frat boys. In "A Dame to Kill For," Dwight McCarthy (Josh Brolin) forsakes his battle with his inner demons to help Ava Lord (Eva Green), the woman of his dreams and nightmares. In "Nancy's Last Dance," Nancy Callahan (Jessica Alba), mad with grief and rage over Hartigan's death, vows revenge.

Director: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller
Executive Producer: Frank Miller, Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein, Zanne Devine, Adam Fields, Elizabeth Avellan, Marci Madison, Oleg Boyko, John Paul Dejoria, Kia Jam, Ted O'Neal, Tim Smith
Screenwriter: Frank Miller
Distributor: Weinstein Co.
Production Co: Troublemaker Studios, AR Films
Rating: R (Nudity|Brief Drug Use|Sexual Content|Strong Brutal Violence)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 22, 2014, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 7, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $13.8M
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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