Film 75 - Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For (Unlimited Double Bill)

Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For -24/08/2014

Luckily, I got to remind myself of the story from Sin City thanks to Cineworld doing the double bill unlimited screening.  After leaving it for 9 years, i would have been hard to remember what actually happened.

Was it too long to wait for the sequel? In the last 9 years, have things progressed that doing the same thing again won't work?

At the start of the film I was highly confused as I had just seen Marv be electrocuted at the end of Sin City, yet here he was, up to his old tricks.   Was this a prequel? or had the events of the previous film mattered I know this is a comic book style film and normal life does not need apply, but give me a clue here.  Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Powers Boothe to name but a few reprise their roles from the previous films and sadly Michael Clarke Duncan could not be with us any more (as well as Brittany Murphy) so is replaced by another mighty power house, President David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert).

With four stories to tell, I found the Eva Green (A Dame to Kill For) part a little slow and with all the money and power she had, you would have thought she would have bought some clothes!  The Joseph Gordon-Levitt story was brilliant, and Jessica Alba was hot as usual.

I don't know if it was because I was in the cinema for such a long time munching away on the largest bag of popcorn known to man, but Sin City 2 seemed to be very short.  At just over 1hr40mins, the time seemed to fly by.

I think that 9 years is not too long to wait for a sequel, but in this case it was.  Without seeing the first film minutes before this, I think there is a lot to remember.  In relation to the way things have progressed, I think that Sin City's style was years ahead of it's time back in 2005, but now that comic book movies have moved on since, Sin City 2 seems a little dated.

Don't get me wrong, there are some really good bits in this, JGL is superb and really dives into the role, Marv is again loads of fun, and Jessica Alba does what she does best.