Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014) 102 min   -   Action | Crime | Thriller              Some of ×Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants. Directors: Frank Miller | Robert Rodriguez

The Buzz: Back in the mid-2000s, Sin City and 300 exposed the world of non-superhero comics to sunlight and became so successful that people like David Fincher looked to turn material such as Charles Burns's Black Hole into movies. Outsiders including Preacher, Sandman , Y: The Last Man were also candidates ... A decade later, it's a different landscape - one clearly dominated by the Marvel Cinematic Universe and DC Comics' tentative first steps into franchise-dom. How does Sin City's sequel fit into the frame? I'm not quite sure. The original didn't have the worldwide reach that 300 achieved, but it did earn just shy of $75 million in the U.S. (and $85 million overseas) but not only was that a different time - it was a different time of year (an early-summer release vs. late in the season here). I just don't see Marv, Nancy, and the others carving out the same territory, and it's always hard to gauge the behavior of a cult audience when viewing options abound. Looked what happened with Kick-Ass 2 - maybe the best direct comparison