frank miller's sin city a dame to kill for

Green's almost entirely the reason to see the film and her Charlotte Rampling eyed seductress is so delectably sensual, one wishes she could time travel back into a vintage film noir. Arriving in a blue satin trench and ruby red lips, Ava, now married to one of the richest men in town, reels Dwight into her own 'Double Indemnity,' aided by adoring manservant Manute (Dennis Haysbert, replacing the late Michael Clarke Duncan). Dwight saving the fickle mistress (Juno Temple) of another Sin City creep (Ray Liotta) before falling for the lure of his own ex Ava. (Although the film is mostly black and white, Rodriguez adds pops of color, usually gracing the female characters - Marcie is completely in color.) 'A Dame to Kill For' finds P.I. Making a silver dollar disappear and reappear, he gains Lady Luck in the form of hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold Marcie (Julia Garner, 'We Are What We Are'), but when his claim that he never loses proves true, his patronage proves a miserable fate for her. 'The Long, Bad Night,' a piece Miller wrote specifically for the film, features cocky Johnny (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) riding into town in a Corvette to take on Sin City's most notorious villain, Senator Roark (Powers Boothe, a franchise MVP), in a poker game. One of Rodriguez's most inspired visualizations features a car chase orbiting around a pensive Marv, like the propeller plane circling the globe in the old Universal Studios logo. He's one of the few that can spin Miller's pulpy dialogue into something lifelike ('I was born at night but it wasn't last night') and he kicks off the film in 'Just Another Saturday Night,' in which he saves a wino from a bunch of sadistic frat boys. One who does is Mickey Rourke, whose Marv was the highlight of the first film. As before there are some sumptuous images, most notably of femme fatale Ava Lord (Eva Green, '300: Rise of an Empire') nude on a diving board backed by a full moon, but outside of Green's campy vamping few of the actors make much of a mark. Nine years after first visiting (codirector) Frank Miller's graphic pulp novel Sin City, Robert Rodriguez and much of his cast returns for four new stories, the central one a prequel explaining just what happened to Dwight McCarthy's (originally played by Clive Owen, here by Josh Brolin) face in 'Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.' This time around, in addition to objectifying woman and replacing cinematic art with green screened digital recreations and homages to art deco noir, Rodriguez adds 3D to his mix but it's really just more of the same.

Frank miller's sin city a dame to kill for