Review of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014) by Lao3D — 23 Aug 2014

I just don't get reviewers that profess to have LOVED the first one and can't STAND this one. Either they totally didn't get the first one, or they need their antidepressants adjusted. "A Dame to Kill For" is as much of a balls-out homage/pastiche of hard-boiled pulp fiction and film noir as the first one.

Are they different? Sure. Is one better than the other? In my opinion, no. All I know is I watched both films with utter enjoyment, a stupid grin on my face half the time. And it's the best use of 3D I've ever seen.

Truly. And I've seen a LOT of 3D movies. Watching smoke wrap through the air around Eva Green's body, or cards sail across a table into the audience, or Mickey Rourke smashing through a fence on a motorcycle, laughing like a maniac -- every frame is gorgeous.

And for a medium based on moving frames of film creating the illusion of life, that has to count for something.