Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Rating 4 out of 10

I saw the original Sin City in 2005. I was mildly amused and gave it a rating of 6 out of 10. These movies are most definitely style over substance. The colors in the film and the over the top acting. Action is exaggerated and the violence is brutal. You don't go to this movie for the plot.

Jessica Alba is returning from the first movie and that is never a bad thing. She is a stripper dancing in the seedy strip club in Sin City. She still very angry about the death of her love Hartigan (Bruce Willis) years before and vows to get even with the powerful Senator who caused his death.

This movie has several plot lines and none of them make much sense. The dame in the title is Ava Lord (the very lovely and mostly naked Eva Green) who returns to her old flame Dwight (Josh Brolin) for help with a potential abusive husband.

There is another plot line featuring Josh (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) as a bastard son of the main bad guy of the movie Senator Roark (Powers Boothe) out to prove a point. We never really figure out what his point is.

Visually the movie is incredible to look at. It has a crazy good cast most of whom only get a few short minutes on screen. It's just too all over the place and mostly makes no sense. If you REALLY liked the first one you will be entertained here.

footnote- Had a bad storm go over the theater while there and power went out. Sat there a couple minutes in the dark waiting for everything to come back online. First time that has happened to me.