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Meanwhile, two detectives, Mort and Bob, investigate Damien's death. Ava claims Dwight was an obsessive ex-lover, and he killed her husband in a jealous rage. Bob is skeptical, but Ava seduces Mort, who believes her every word. They begin an affair and Ava pressures him to find and kill Dwight. When Mort, obsessed with Ava, attempts to track Dwight down in Old Town, an action that would break the truce between the police and the prostitutes, Bob attempts to stop him. An enraged Mort shoots Bob in the face, then commits suicide afterward. Out of options, Ava reluctantly partners with the mob boss Wallenquist.
Tom Russo of The Boston Globe gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying "As usual with Sin City, much of the vibe is about echoing genre touchstones, while the look isn't quite like anything else the digital age has seen."[77] Peter Howell of the Toronto Star gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying "It's a town of bad women and worse poets, where the fists are hard, the talk is tough but nothing is for real - and nothing doesn't add up to much."[78] Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times gave the film a negative review, saying "Punishingly stylized, this marriage of comic-book panels and hard-boiled dialogue has a heaviness that can't be explained solely by its cynicism or lack of wit. It's a blunt instrument whose visual shadings far surpass the kill-or-be-killed storytelling."[6] Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a negative review, saying "The greatest sin of Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame To Kill For is the way its high style is brought low -- visually stunning, but emotionally vapid, unrelentingly violent, its splendiferous comic book cast mostly squandered."[79] Liam Lacey of The Globe and Mail gave the film two out of four stars, saying "If you showed the Sin City midnight world in smaller doses, as a weekly series on late-night cable television, the slick graphics and cold kink might be more compelling."[80] James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave the film three out of four stars, saying "For those who appreciated Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's 2005 campy, kinetic film noir homage, Sin City, the 2014 follow-up, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For is unlikely to disappoint."[81]
The original Sin City was something of a minor cultural event. There had been nothing quite like the gritty, stylish, predominantly black and white 2005 adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novels. Primary director Robert Rodriguez hadn't yet evolved into a niche filmmaker. Guest director Quentin Tarantino was still something of a wild card, if not exactly a novelty. And author/co-director Miller was someone whose distinctive voice had scarcely been heard on film before.Critically acclaimed and commercially profitable (it grossed nearly $160 million worldwide on a $40 M budget), Sin City quickly assumed a place in the Internet Movie Database's list of the all-time top 250 films, soaring as high as 57th on the first anniversary of its release. Talk of a sequel was almost instantaneous, with Rodriguez claiming work had begun all the way back in May 2005. Box Office Mojo created an entry for this sequel by fall of that year, assigning it a summer 2006 release date. Though the date disappeared, the entry did not, standing as "TBD" for years, until May 2012 when an October 2013 debut was set. It would miss that target by nearly a year and when Sin City: A Dame to Kill For finally materialized in August 2014, it would do so to poor reviews.Despite a nearly 3,000-theater count not far from its predecessor's, A Dame to Kill For could only manage an 8th place opening and would barely double its paltry first weekend gross in the end. It would finish with just under $14 million domestically, a far cry from the original's $74 M North American gross and from the sequel's $65 M budget. It easily goes down as one of 2014's biggest bombs. If there had been a window for a Sin City sequel to succeed, clearly it closed long before this one was completed. Taking its subtitle from Miller's second series of Sin City comics published from 1993 to 1994, A Dame to Kill is at least partially set four years after the original film. Around ten characters are back, four of whom have been recast. We open in what is technically named Basin City but never called by anything other than the last three syllables. Psychopathic loner Marv (Mickey Rourke) tries to remember how he got here, here being the place where four frat boys who were trying to set a hobo on fire have just been killed.Marv takes something of a backseat this time, as three distinct stories play out with mild overlap. The first involves Johnny (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a confident young high roller who comes to town claiming he never loses. His confidence isn't misplaced as he clears out slot machines and makes his way to a back room, where he embarrasses Senator Roark (Powers Boothe) in a high-stakes poker game. Roark doesn't take losing kindly. He tracks down Johnny and gives him something to remember him by.We then turn our attentions to Dwight McCarthy (Josh Brolin), a hard, sleazy, ex-alcoholic photographer who is invited to reconnect with the irresistible temptress Ava Lord (Eva Green). Begging him for an apology, she stirs passion in him, leading him right into the trap she's set. As a result, fugitive Dwight flees to neighbor city Old Town, a place protected by prostitutes, including Dwight's old friend Gail (Rosario Dawson), who treats his wounds.The third storyline involves Nancy Callahan (Jessica Alba), a dancer who has taken to drinking as she continues to mourn the death of her protector, cop John Hartigan (Bruce Willis), whom she sees as a concerned ghost-type. Nancy teams up with Marv to get justice for Hartigan from the only person who can give it.Like its predecessor, A Dame to Kill For is distinguished by its look, a stylish, edgy black and white universe with splashes of color achieved by a heavy use of green screen and digital sets. The visuals are not quite the novelty they were nine years ago, as other films have since opted for similarly stylized appearance, from the 300 movies adapted from Miller's graphic novels to Miller's own 2008 misfire The Spirit (which, it must be pointed out, earned nearly 1.5 times what this sequel did). Nonetheless, the artificial design of extremes remains striking and potent. It somehow suits this pitch black material.Like the first movie, this sequel adopts the tone of classic film noir, but without the moderation and coded terms of your Grandpa's childhood. To different degrees, these characters are all degenerate lowlifes: murderers, whores, swindlers, dirty politicians, femme fatales. They voice their inner feelings in monologue that contrasts silky turns of phrase with gravely tones. There is much more than a hint and threat of violence in this cesspool. The film is full of slit throats, decapitations, torn and bulging eyeballs. It's all stylized and mostly unrealistic, but still off-putting and cringe-inducing. It's like Dick Tracy placed in a blender with suffering, painkillers, a strip club, and a couple of bottles of bourbon. It's dark, it's nasty, and yet, it's also somehow kind of poetic and graceful.Sure, such dark, graphic content will not be to everyone's taste. I would hesitate to claim that I liked this movie. The over-the-top content certainly grows tiresome. This series does more to desensitize than most films. Nonetheless, there's something you have to respect about its insane vision and the compelling characters and plots it develops. Dame suffers from not being fresh and original, as well as for being far from timely. Sequels that arrive too quickly seem hasty and rushed. But after a while, it becomes "Why bother?" That certainly seems to be the public's reaction to this film. It was mirrored in the tepid response from critics, many of whom championed the first one. The big problem is not that Rodriguez and Miller (who get no contribution from Tarantino this time) can't recreate the look and tone of the original. It's that they can and do, making this more of the same.Critics bemoan "more of the same", something they've been taking Rodriguez to task for as he continues to alternate between gimmicky 3D family films and deliberately trashy exploitation action. Though the public usually eats up seconds, the passing of nearly a decade dulls almost all kinds of passion and excitement. If Dame came first exactly as is and the first Sin City came nine years later, I'm convinced you could swap the reviews and the general sentiments would still apply. What that probably means more than anything is that Sin City isn't as good as many claim and A Dame to Kill For isn't as bad as some would have you believe.Interestingly, Powers Boothe, an actor you probably don't recognize from anything outside this franchise, gets to do more acting than most of the younger, more famous people billed above him in the cast. Another interesting tidbit is the fact that this movie includes a strange 20th anniversary Angels in the Outfield reunion in Gordon-Levitt's scene with Christopher Lloyd. This is a world where battered men are fixed up far from hospitals.Dame's reception was about as disastrous as anyone could have imagined considering the returning talent, nine years' worth of inflation, and the addition of 3D and the premium prices it fetches. When you adjust for all that, you discover that the sequel sold barely a tenth as many tickets as its predecessor did. It also filled far fewer seats than anything else released to as many theaters in 2014.Its theatrical release already a faded memory, A Dame to Kill For recently hit home video from The Weinstein Company and partner Anchor Bay Entertainment in a single-disc DVD and the three-disc Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD UltraViolet combo pack reviewed here.
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