Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2014
	Director: Robert Rodriguez (Planet Terror, From Dusk till Dawn)
	Actors: Josh Brolin (Men in Black 3), Mickey Rourke (Iron Man 2), Clive Owen (Children of Men), Bruce Willis (Looper), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (The Dark Knight Rises), Jessica Alba (The Fantastic Four 1-2, Machete), Rosario Dawson (Death Proof), Eva Green (300: Rise of an Empire)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Polar, Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 11.06.2015, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: Dwight (Brolin) meets a former lover (Green) and will unwillingly get involved in her married life story.
Review: I think I liked this movie better than the first Sin City. I have changed its rating accordingly. Reading again my review of it, I realize that all the elements I was criticizing have been corrected: better-looking images and special effects, less narration and more adaptation, while we still get to appreciate many known faces... and other body parts. Indeed Eva Green, at the heart of the main story, is deadly sexy in this movie (like she already was in 300: Rise of an Empire) and spends most of the time very lightly dressed, when dressed at all. I am not one to complain about such things, but her curves were responsible for the rejection by the MPAA of one poster of the movie in the USA (see at the end of this post), "for nudity -- curve of under breast and dark nipple/areola circle visible through sheer gown." So the movie focuses mainly on one story (about 80%) in which Josh Brolin plays nicely a similar role as Clive Owen in Sin City, while the other story is more a continuation to what we have already seen, and includes useless flashbacks involving Bruce Willis. I found the last twenty minutes to be weaker, maybe the movie would have gained from a better editing placing the conclusion of the main story at the very end.
Rating: 6 /10