Had Robert Rodriguez got his butt into gear a bit sooner and started on a sequel to 2005's Sin City - oh - a year or two after the first movie came out, audiences might have been a little more excited when it shipped into theatres at a time when it felt relevant. As it stands, Rodriguez waited almost a decade to follow-up his comic book classic, releasing it here in 2014, at a point when people were more like: "Mm, I'm sort of over that now. Maybe I'll watch it at a later date on DVD or something." Which is an incredibly long and convoluted way of saying that Sin City: A Dame To Kill For flopped at the box office, cementing Rodriguez as another talented Hollywood director who can't seem to catch a break. Then again, perhaps he should try to make better movies; A Dame To Kill For was, after all, a p*ss poor excuse for cinema. Boring, overacted and - in places - bewildering, this belated sequel isn't as cool as it thinks it is. After about twenty minutes, you start to wish Rodriguez hadn't bothered.
Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.
