TheGodling
Los Ingobernables de Sala de Cine
So disappointing. A Dame To Kill is one of the stand-out stories of Sin City but Rodriguez has gone so far off the rails this couldn't be saved. Repetitive and boring action scenes (here's Miho cutting off four more heads, oh, let's show Marv punch another eight people again), lazy green screen (remember when Sin City had an actual atmosphere to it) and all-original stories that don't make sense continuity-wise.
Philip Seymour Hoffman's swan song.
He drops a captivating performance as a burned out German spy who tries to crack a big case regarding covert al-Qaeda funding through a long term game of manipulation of small time targets, but has to deal with rivaling agencies who want direct results and arrests so they can show off how much they're ensuring the safety of the free world without getting a single step closer to the real masterminds. People of explosions, gun fights and other things resembling action can stay home, even more so than Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (also based on a John Le Carré novel) this is about backdoor deals, talking with people, talking to other people, getting those people together for another backdoor deal and so on and so on. If you're willing to commit yourself to the case though, the tension grows and grows as the pieces are being moved across the board and you hope they can pull it off, for the sake of everyone involved.
I'd say the only thing that works against the movie is that Rachel McAdams' ass is so noticeably great it becomes a genuine source of distraction, but while it worked against the movie, it still worked for me.
