Synopsis
Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.
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Cast
- Jessica AlbaNancy
- Bruce WillisHartigan
- Mickey RourkeMarv
- Josh BrolinDwight
- Joseph Gordon-LevittJohnny
- Eva GreenAva
- Rosario DawsonGail
- Powers BootheSenator Roark
- Dennis HaysbertManute
- Ray LiottaJoey
Recommendations
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Total Film
Not as groundbreaking as the original, nor as expansive as all the best sequels are. But with some excellent cast additions, and Miller on murky form, this still sizzles to the touch. - 60
Empire
A Dame To Kill For shares some of the downsides of the first, particularly dubious female characterisation. But this retains the gritty, gruelling vice-grip on graphic-novel noir that made Sin City so enjoyable. - 60
The Telegraph
Sin City 2 glowers and sulks and is determined to show you the best bad time you’ve had in years. It’s neither high art nor noir, but it’s what a Sin City film should be. - 58
The Playlist
If you’re not looking for reinvention and loved the first "Sin City," then you'll probably love this one too. It's a gorgeous-to-look-at, brain-splattered case of "more of the same." - 50
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
"A Dame to Kill For” isn’t the shock to the system “Sin City” was. But whatever its plot repetition and warmed-over tough talk cost it, this is still a movie like few others you’ve ever seen, a 3D slice of Nihilistic noir that will have you narrating your own guts and guns story on the drive home, chewing on a toothpick as you do. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
As an exercise in style, it's diverting enough, but these mean streets are so well traveled that it takes someone like Eva Green to make the detour through them worth the trip. - 40
Village Voice
Green is sexy, funny, dangerous, and wild -- everything the film needed to be -- and whenever she's not on-screen, we feel her absence as though the sun has blinked off. - 38
Slant Magazine
Whereas a single, stinging one-liner would have sufficed Jacques Tourneur or Fritz Lang, Frank Miller's overcompensating flood of pulpy dialogue only renders his characters flat and sans empathy.
