Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Sin City 2 didn't impress me much. The visuals are again properly dark and original, adding two distinctive and perfect characters like Eva Green, whose tits haven't changed at all since 300: Rise of an Empire, and the very talented and perfect Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who really enjoyed his role and I'm with him, he just could have been given more space. What I see as a minus is the lack of blood, these white splashes don't impress much and overall I didn't have as much fun here as I did with the first one, so Sin City 2 doesn't take 4* from me. 65% (09/24/2014)

I didn't believe that anything bad could come out of this film, but it did. The new plotlines that Miller wrote for the film aren't particularly interesting and perhaps are overly stylized. Above all, the new Nancy is a monster. A Dame to Kill For lacks the necessary charge, and the overall stylization seems somewhat strange to me. It's like it's a different Sin City than the first one, different in terms of approach and the filming itself. It still has its good moments, but there are too few of them. Unfortunately. Most of the characters are just there as decorations. (10/09/2014)

The "Sin City" stories are the best thing to come out of comics since the 1990s. No question about it. The film version is also more than worthy. I wouldn't approach the two films as separate projects, but as a single unit, and I'm very comfortable with that. Acting wise, Eva Green reigns supreme with another unmistakable variation on Angelique from Dark Shadows, Jessica Alba has gone dark and the whores from the old town have the beautiful twins, wearing the face of Jaime King, in their midst. Julia Garner with her curly head is a delight too, and who else would one want to bind but Juno Temple? (09/06/2014)

The second to Sin City is again full of very suggestive and imaginative visuals, but story-wise it is noticeably weaker than its predecessor, which had the primacy of the first (and therefore novel) film. From the cast, the one who impressed me was Eva Green, who enjoyed her role properly. In short, a sequel that didn't need to be made at all, but then again I would be lying if I said that the screening was a waste of time. (09/22/2014)

My relationship with film is best illustrated by the fact that I managed to avoid it for almost 8 years after its premiere. Rodriguez has never been among my favorite directors, and even in moments of weakness, I only gave him a maximum of 3 stars, and with the passing years, I feel that I am moving further away from his work. Therefore, today I am much stricter when it comes to his films. Since the first trip to Sin City, Rodriguez has not advanced anywhere, and he hasn't understood anything or learned anything new. In this film, we can once again witness the failure of narrative techniques and the pitiful inability to work with characters. The film quickly becomes an unintentional parody of itself. Miller's exaggeratedly affected comic book vision needed cinematic cultivation and sensitive development of its world, not mechanical takeover and cramping literalness. Rodriguez did not become a visionary, but rather a discoverer and advocate of a typical dead-end in filmmaking. If it weren't for the fetishistically seductive visuals and the presence of Eva Green, who lends her deceptive femme fatale with confidence and wit like no other actress, I would rate it even lower. Overall impression: 35%. (12/27/2021)