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Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (Sin City 2)

2014

Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller

Mickey Rourke, Josh Brolin, Jessica Alba, Joseph Gordon-Levitt ...

5.7

10,228

Film noir. Action. Thriller It's one of those hot nights, dry and windless. The kind that makes people do sweaty, secret things. Dwight (Clive Owen) is thinking of all the ways he's screwed up and what he'd give for one clear chance to wipe the slate clean, to dig his way out of the numb gray hell that is his life. And he'd give anything. Just to cut loose. Just to feel the fire. One more time.

	Author	Review
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"Rare indeed is the movie that features this many bared breasts, pummeled crotches and severed noggins and still leaves you checking your watch every 10 minutes."	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"As an exercise in style, it's diverting enough, but these mean streets are so well traveled that it takes someone like Eva Green to make the detour through them worth the trip."	NEU
United Kingdom	James White Empire	"A sequel that feels truly of a piece with the original, exploring and expanding the world of Sin City and delivering a heady brew of noir (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"This is Rodriguez's second sequel in a row in which he turns sex, violence and exploitation into an occasional for dullness. For a film loaded with decapitations and gun-toting ladies in bondage gear, 'Sin City' gets really tedious really quickly."	NEG
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"The film’s greatest assets are Gordon-Levitt and Green (...) Sin City 2 glowers and sulks and is determined to show you the best bad time you’ve had in years (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"This sequel, which starts off promisingly, soon bogs down, its relish for tawdry, hyper-violent titillation eventually becoming as monochromatic as the black-and-white images."	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The movie looks good enough to inspire a million screensavers. It's just that 'Sin City: A Dame To Kill' For doesn't explode onscreen the way the first one did (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Peter Hartlaub SFGATE	"It is, in almost every way, inferior to its predecessor. It's poorly paced and repetitive (...) It doesn't help that new actors play several returning characters, bearing little resemblance to their predecessors"	NEG
United Kingdom	Mike McCahill The Guardian	"The vision remains uncompromising and it dazzles far more than any sequel should. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"The sequel to 2005’s “Sin City” is beautiful, dark, twisted fantasy (...) though, the movie can be monotone and airless"	NEU
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"The best antidote to all the glowering and posing is Eva Green: As Ava, the titular dame, she’s nothing short of a godsend."	NEU
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"The cartoonish mayhem in 'Sin City: A Dame to Kill For' aims for a film noir sensibility, but too frequently the script simply resorts to anachronistic scenes of Jessica Alba twerking. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News	"The characters don't click, and the action feels dull. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"This is one badass movie."	POS
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"I'm not sure what mood I'd have to be in to truly enjoy 'Sin City: A Dame to Kill For'. But I'm not in it. (...) Rating: ★" (out of four)"	NEU

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