This not-too-long tale is broken into two segments. Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as Johnny, a charismatic gambler whose luck never runs out – that is, until maybe tonight. First, there's the new story titled "A Long Bad Night" which Frank Miller wrote exclusively for the film. It's like the end of ' Monty Python and the Holy Grail,' only unintentionally.Īside from the stand-alone Marv intro, 'A Dame to Kill For' tells three more stories about the corrupt city's dirty underbelly. Being 22 minutes shorter than the first film, closing credits truly begin rolling when least expected.
Instead, it opens with a short about Marv (Mickey Rourke) cracking the skulls of punk frat boys and closes abruptly without any sign that what we've just seen was the climax. 'Sin City' featured bookends with Josh Hartnett playing a smooth contracted killer in stylized, cigarette-smoking cool sequences. While the stories of 'A Dame to Kill For' are completely non-linear, the movie itself doesn't follow the format of the first. Despite the main two writers and directors of the first returning the second installment, 'A Dame to Kill For' feels like cheap studio-fueled sequel made by anyone but the guys who delivered the perfect original film. We were onboard and we "got it." Having said that, along comes 'A Dame to Kill For' nine years later and now we're expected to not only remember those characters and their timelines, but it's assumed that we'll be able to pick up right where we left off despite a good chunk of the actors from 'Sin City' not reprising their roles in 'A Dame to Kill For.' Much more than you can ever imagine, it gets messy – but that's not even the worst part about it. It was easy to connect the dots and see the big picture. Featuring the same actors in the same roles, it wasn't a problem. Think back to the first 'Sin City.' Remember how it followed several characters through several stories in a completely non-linear fashion? You'd see a character meet his/her bloody end, but that same character would pop up again in another person's story that was set prior to him/her getting blasted.
Being quite the fan of Frank Miller's 'Sin City' comic books (I refuse to make them sound like something they're not, so I won't be calling them "graphic novels" any time soon) and the cinematic adaptation that he made in 2005 with filmmakers Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, I had high hopes for the big screen ' Sin City' sequel, 'A Dame to Kill For.' Unfortunately, neither the comic book fan nor the movie fan inside me were pleased with the outcome.
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