'Sin City: A Dame to Kill For': Most critics aren't won over by the film
The film, which follows the first 'Sin City' installment almost a decade later, has received mostly poor reviews. 'Sin City: A Dame to Kill For' stars Josh Brolin, Eva Green, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
The film, which follows the first 'Sin City' installment almost a decade later, has received mostly poor reviews. 'Sin City: A Dame to Kill For' stars Josh Brolin, Eva Green, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
A sequel to the 2005 film 鈥淪in City,鈥� based on Frank Miller's comics of the same name, about the crime-ridden fictional town of Basin City, hits theaters today. What are critics saying?聽
So far, the film 鈥淪in City: A Dame to Kill For,鈥� which is co-directed by Miller and Robert Rodriguez and stars Josh Brolin, Jessica Alba, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Mickey Rourke, among others, has been mostly negatively received by critics, currently holding a score of 44 out of 100 on the review aggregator website Metacritic. By contrast, the first 鈥淐ity鈥� film has a score of 74. The Monitor reviewed the first movie positively as well, awarding it three stars and writing that viewers 鈥渇eel pulp pages turning under your fingers and taste grit as cars fly through the air鈥� and noting that it boasted an 鈥淎-list cast.鈥� Rodriguez and Miller co-directed the first 鈥淐ity鈥� movie as well.
Like the first 鈥淐ity鈥� film, the sequel is a collection of various stories set in Basin City, including that of gambler Johnny (Gordon-Levitt) and private investigator Dwight McCarthy (Brolin).
Chicago Sun-Times writer Richard Roeper did receive the movie positively, calling it 鈥渄ark [and] exhilarating.鈥�
But Los Angeles Times reviewer Betsy Sharkey found the movie 鈥渧isually stunning but emotionally vapid.鈥�
And New York Times critic Jeannette Catsoulis found that 鈥渢his marriage of comic-book panels and hard-boiled dialogue has a heaviness that can鈥檛 be explained solely by its cynicism or lack of wit.鈥澛�