Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Starring: Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Eva Green,and Josh Brolin.12/1/2014 I got exactly what I came for in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For,but not much else. This is a good film that again utilizes the black and white to color parallels well. It's just not as impressive as the first one. I enjoyed the new characters,and while the film is a little disjointed I enjoyed it. The film is very much the same type of movie that we got with the first Sin City. We get a couple of colorful, disgusting,and violent stories in Sin City, and get to know the place through the characters. A few stories are at least interesting,and the titular story A Dame to Kill For is particularly enjoyable due to one character,but the really life blood is the black and white that the film is shot in. Also most of the sets are CGI like the first one making the film look spectacular in every shot. The glimpses of color that pop up really make the film look beautiful. I know that this is not enough to make a movie good,and this is not the greatest movie. There are a few other things including the graphic violence which makes the film pop,and it's nice to see the recurring characters, but it's the new character that really impressed. I mentioned in a 300: Rise of an Empire review that Eva Green stole that movie. Now looking back at it that was nothing. I'm not sure she gave a great performance in this film, but she was interesting. Plus there are some specific scenes that she is in that this being a somewhat trashy B-movie applied to me quite a bit. The A Dame to Kill For story isn't the only good story. There's one with Joseph Gordon Levitt that is a lot of fun,and Levitt as usual is quite good. This story also highlights the real villain which is a mayor that is corrupt played by Powers Boothe who has quite a bit of fun with the role being the slimiest person in Sin City even with all the other horrible people around him. That is all good stuff in this film,but again this isn't too great of a film. It's very uneven,and unlike the first film not all the stories are distinct,or strong enough to work against each other. The Eva Green,and Joseph Gordon Levitt stories are fun,but the final one including Jessica Alba doesn't come off as inciting like the others,but it comes off awfully boring. This I think is because this specific story feels much more like a normal action movie,and doesn't have the richness of the stories that the others have. It just comes off flat. Then again there's a bit of this film that feels more like a boring action movie,and could have used more of the rich style and atmosphere that all the good Sin City stories possess. This film is mostly good,but it has quite a few flaws. I still enjoyed it though for the black and white as well as the few stories that were really fun. I give Sin City: A Dame to Kill For a 7 out of 10
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