Review of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014) by Dahurtbizness — 26 Aug 2023

WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED???? u had the perfect cast, 3 directors (Robert Rodriguez, frank miller & Quentin tarantino) all in one movie including the creator of sin city frank miller as the director for sin city 1. the original movie had so much attention to detail and brought the comic series to life, page for page that's including "the recut & theatrical, extended and unrated versions. all that is has also not been brought back. this movie felt lazily put together in hopes to make profit banking of the success of the previous movie that they used as a driving force for this movie in hopes for this movie to sell.

The recastings:

Devon Aoki as Miho was replaced and it never was explain as of why when Aoki was literally perfect as deadly little Miho, Jamie Chung felt weird and off it just doesn't hit the same even with the music from the first music using her theme for the recast. it just didn't sit right with me and it was changes that it didn't even need to be made, y'all did it for the sake of doing it.

Clive Owen as Dwight was also perfect, from his Monologue, how he spoke, the tone of his voice his overall portrayal hit all of the right notes and make u invest in every scene that he's in. how u gonna replace him with Thanos (Josh Brolin) and think that nobody wasn't going to notice. LOL and it's messed up because Clive was already in a middle of another project and y'all could've delayed the movie bcuz he wanted to be in it, y'all just didn't wanted to wait for him. the sequel wasn't even in high demand bcuz everyone was just ok with only a stand alone movie. I can watch the first movie 20 times and it never gets old, every chronological order and recut order and it never gets old I always seem to find something new and interesting when I rewatch it. the first movie is literally a masterpiece to a comic book to feel like it was brought to life. but the problem lays with the director himself Robert Rodriguez bcuz he didn't understand the appeal and his core audience/fan base. he tried to pull a Vince McMahon but assuming he knew what the audience wants without understanding his audience. the crazy part is that Josh Brolin didn't even try to attempt to make it feel like it's the same character. I had to google to double check if he was even playing as the same character or a different character with the same name until u watch the scene when he runs into Rosario Dawson's Gail and tried to pass it off as we supposed to buy that this is the same dwight from the first movie, but it feels so forced and unnatural. Rosario Dawson and Josh Brolin has ZERO chemistry. so it's jarring it gets even worst when Brolin's Dwight gets shot in the eye by his ex Ava gets surgery then suddenly looks like how Dwight should've looked like since Brolin's introduction as Dwight. he went from have short to no hair to looking like Clive Owen's Dwight's hairstyle. like can u be more on the nose on why this recasting is terrible. the movie is getting a one star for me and it's luck to even get that and it's only bcuz they had the sense to bring back some of the original cast like Jamie Chung, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba & Powers Boothe. and also, bcuz the continued Nancy's story arc from the original movie. other than that, this movie felt more like a bad spin off rather than a true sequel. if it wasn't for these than this movie would've gotten a ZERO from me.