Sin City – A Dame to Kill For Frank Miller is a master at the graphic novel and if you see his first film “Sin City” directed by himself and Robert Rodriguez hopefully you would agree with me. Sin City a Dame to Kill for is the second graphic novel Frank and his team have brought to life, and much like its predecessor it is dark, cold, colourless and at times a nightmarish telling of tales set within the fictitious town of Sin City and its even deadlier “old town” where the women rule and do what they need to keep the peace. There are about 4 stories told some in two parts and each one has its own style and grace, all 4 do cross over one another to tell a bigger tale but I won’t spoil that for you just yet. Starting out we meet Marv played by Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler, Sin City) who is laying almost lifeless on the road forgetting how he got there as he stands he can see lifeless bodies of younger men lying about the place slowly he begins to get his memory back and the retelling of his earlier saga and how he came to be begins. Mickey Rourke is disgusting but in such a handsome way the character he plays is pure vile but you learn to love him and his ugliness… That’s just one of the stories and it is a very brief description of what exactly happens. Sin City is twisted, it is angry and non-apologetic, its colourless style brings a soft comfort for the amount of blood splatter that is thrown across the screens but it is still enough to make you twist away at times at the sufferings that go on. One of the most violent films I have ever seen but not in a “Saw” or “Hostile” kind of cheap thrills way. Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller both directed this and have done an amazing job to some extent visually…. The problem lies in the stories themselves, the narration at times gets very tedious and quite annoying I found. I can understand why it is there after all it’s the way films were told back in the forties where of course this fictitious town is set. There just wasn’t enough to keep me captivated it’s comic book style seemed relentless and I couldn’t help but wonder why they wouldn’t change the style for each scenario, just to give it that little bit of difference, it would be enough to bring each story to life in its own unique style. The cast was outstanding and so very large this film has everyone from the original and a few more to add to the punch even some of those that died. Starring Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Rosaria Dawson, Bruce Willis, Powers Boothe, Ray Liotta and even Lady Gaga just to name a few. The characters are supposed to be bad to which every one of them is, there wasn’t a single nice character in the entire film, which I’ll admit I did love. Everyone was so bad they could be nothing more than brilliant. As I said before the story is what let this down, it is pretty much just a recycled version of the original nothing new to add nothing new to make it stand out on its own. Not one for the kiddies!!! 3 out of 5 BanShee Screams Thanks for reading. X
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 08:57:51 +0000
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