Review of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014) by Meiami — 12 Mar 2022

I don't know why this is rated so highly. It's one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Ridiculously over the top, jarringly gruesome, juvenile in delivery, and generally dopey... though its worst "sin" is being often boring.

I liked the first movie and its stories and characters. This one lost a lot of the heart and believability of the characters. It's a very surface-level schlock shock movie. Maybe Rodriguez and Miller did it for the paycheck.

It focuses on cheap endless attention-grabbing thrills, and regurgitates many of the same kinds of visuals and scenes that made the first movie stand out... but gets old fast. I suppose audiences when this came out were easy to please.

I found it painfully mind-numbing, and besides a few good performances form a few actors, worth tossing in the bin. Hopefully I'll forget about it soon.