Kurt Loder Reviews Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Not a lot has
changed in the nine years since our first visit to Sin City. Guns
still bark; men still crumple and bleed; and the women still dress
like hookers, when they dress at all. The night is black (it’s
always night) and the rain still stylishly persistent. 3D has come
to town, but apart from that it’s the same rotten place we
remember—fun at first, and never less than ravishing to look at.
But long before it’s time to leave, we’ve started to feel as
beaten-down as many of the characters.

Writes Kurt Loder, A Dame to Kill For isn’t
much more than a reprise of the original Sin City,
with all of its shadowy atmosphere, gaudy dialogue (“the pavement
rises up to give me a big sloppy kiss”) and snarling brutality.
Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez once again re-creates the hard-boiled
imagery of Frank Miller’s groundbreaking comics with obsessive
fanboy fidelity. 

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