Movie Review: Sin City- A dame to kill for

 

Movie Sin City: A dame to kill for Photo: Courtesy

Sin City movies are shot in black and white. This does not necessarily make them old. It brings out the comedy and fantasy without having to be distracted by colour.
This is a sequel to 2005’s Sin City but it brings together a pair of Frank Miller’s stories - A Dame to Kill For and Just Another Saturday Night - combining them with two new tales. One features Jessica Alba’s “Nancy”, and another focuses on a gambler played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez are back as co-directors, and they give the film the same look as the original but with the addition of 3D.
The story revolves around the city’s sins and focuses on the town’s hard-headed citizens who cross paths with some of its most notorious inhabitants: the tough, corrupt, broken-hearted and desperate vigilantes meet the city’s crooked cops. The movie starts on a snowy Saturday night in Marv’s brutal, haunted, and angry life, played by Mickey Rourke. He stops off at the nude bar to watch Nancy - played by Jessica Alba - dance, his anvil-shaped head glaring out at the world. He breaks up a crime about to be committed in an alley by a bunch of preppy jerks. With his amnesia attacks, who is to save this city that refuses to care?

Thumbs up
‘A Dame to Kill For’ is visually entertaining and made for people with a special taste for film. In Sin City women are full-on goddesses: powerful and awful, with big needs, willing to go to the mat to get what they want.

Thumbs down
The movie has no hero. Dead cop Bruce Willis is only brought back in flashbacks. Not cool.

Verdict
Comic film junkies will totally enjoy this. For the rest of us, enjoy the monochrome.