Sin City: A Dame To Kill For (2014) Review!

     What I wanna start with is that this film is considered a bomb and a huge disappointment.  It underperformed so badly that I am sure a third installment will never be made, and I find that disappointing.  I love this film.  It is exactly equal to the first one in every way.  It does not deserve the negative hype at all.  What I will say is maybe it's because they waited nearly a decade to make a sequel to a box office smash that most who saw it wanted to see a sequel within a few years.  Okay, so that sentence was kinda messed up but hopefully you get the meaning.
     So we have the same directors with the exception of Quentin Tarantino is not a guest director for this one.  So Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller do all the work here.  Frank Miller is the creator and the writer for all the stories and I find that the transition from comic book to film is helped out by this little fact.  Most comic book films are being made today to look like they can really happen or they take place as close to reality as they can be.  This one basically says screw all that and decides to go with practically all exact replicas of the art in the comics.  For this I love it.  It is a visual masterpiece just like its predecessor.  I believe it because Miller wants his original work to resemble his film version and not blend in with the slew of comic book films that have bombarded the box office in the past few years.  Don't get me wrong, I love most of those films as well, even if they don't follow the original story lines all too well.  See, with the Sin City movies you can almost watch the film and read the comic simultaneously and it works perfect.  That's why I love that Mr. Miller makes his own film adaptations of his own work. 
     We have here a gigantic cast, much like the first one but a few additions and a few substitutions.  Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Bruce Willis, Eva Green, Christopher Meloni, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rosario Dawson, Powers Booth, Jaime King, Dennis Haysbert, Ray Liotta and Christopher Lloyd.  Funny thing about the cast is that's not all of it.  Every body in this film does what is expected of them, and I believe they were all expected to be a little overdramatic as to fit the style of the source material.  I think it works beautifully in the context of the story and style.  
     The special effects are exactly the same as the first film.  That means a whole lot of green screen acting and hyper visuals.  Most everything is in black and white with a few exceptions in each scene like someone's eyes are colored, or maybe some blood is colored, or a car, or a shirt...well you get the point I hope.  It basically tells the viewer to pay attention to this little detail and you have no way of not staring at it either because it sticks out like the little red coat in Schindler's List.  I have to say though that the car scenes do not look real but they are really cool to watch because they look like the comics exactly.
     Recommendations are for anyone that likes the first film and likes near faithful comic book to film adaptations.  Lots of action and some dramatic parts.  Be warned though that this is not a comic book film for kids at all as it is rated highly into the "R" section.  Loads of nudity, language, sexual contact, alcohol and some serious violence.  I love it and will definitely watch it again, maybe both films back to back next time.
     Let me know what you think in the comments below!