Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For | Salt Lake City Weekly
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Rated R · 101 minutes · 2014

Action, Crime drama, Thriller
There’s the nihilism of Frank Miller’s Sin City, where men are nothing but their rage and women are nothing but their bodies. But it pales in comparison to the nihilism of this latest story about the place, a movie consisting of little more than vignettes on vengeance and cruel parades of sociopathic power, performed as gleefully ultraviolent shadow-plays. It’s a movie where disjointed parts bounce around in a random nasty game of pinball. Is it paradoxical to suggest that even nihilistic stories need a reason to be told? Dame is all ugly posturing, monstrous and merciless merely for the sake of merciless monstrosity. For extra bonus vacuity and confusion, the various plot threads here are not happening simultaneously; some are sequels to events in 2005's Sin City, and others are prequels. Even the unique visual style of the film—black-and-white occasionally splashed with vivid, urgent color—seems little more than a gimmick. On the small plus side, you do get both Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Eva Green, two of the most bewitchingly magnetic actors onscreen today. They’re never together, alas; that might be too combustible even for Sin City.
Official Site: sincity-2.com
Director: Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller
Producer: Robert Rodriguez, Aaron Kaufman, Stephen L'Heureux, Alexander Rodyansky, Mark Manuel, Frank Miller, Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein, Zanne Devine, Adam Fields, Elizabeth Avellan, Marci Madison, Oleg Boyko, John Dejoria, Kia Jam, Theodore O'Neal and Tim Smith
Cast: Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rosario Dawson, Bruce Willis, Eva Green, Powers Boothe, Dennis Haysbert, Ray Liotta, Jaime King, Christopher Lloyd, Jamie Chung, Jeremy Piven, Christopher Meloni, Stacy Keach, Juno Temple, Lady Gaga and Marton Csokas

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